Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sun., Aug. 29 as a Category 4 hurricane, with the first death reported in Prairieville due to injuries sustained from a fallen tree. Now weakened to a tropical storm as it heads to Mississippi , the natural disaster has left a little more than 1 million homes without power after dumping a dangerous mix of torrential rains and high-speed winds that ripped off roofs and caused extensive flooding, according to local utility companies.
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