Breaking News: Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, made landfall in Louisiana. It’s one of the most powerful systems to assault the region since Hurricane Katrina. - HOT AIR BALLOON FLIGHT

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Breaking News: Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, made landfall in Louisiana. It’s one of the most powerful systems to assault the region since Hurricane Katrina.

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Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, made landfall in Louisiana. It's one of the most powerful systems to assault the region since Hurricane Katrina.

Sunday, August 29, 2021 12:58 PM EST

The storm's maximum sustained winds on Sunday morning reached 150 miles an hour, closing in on the 157 m.p.h. winds of a Category 5 storm. In New Orleans and across southeast Louisiana, residents were bracing for the worst of the hurricane.

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