President Joe Biden pledged to get the Gulf Coast region “back on its feet” and to full recovery for areas hit by CAT 4 Hurricane Ida that stormed ashore in Louisiana on Aug. 29. The storm produced mass flooding, power outages and destruction in New Orleans (currently without power) and the region. Biden stopped at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center after returning to Washington from a trip to Dover AFB, Del., to honor 13 service members killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Once the storm has passed, the president said, “we’re going to put the country’s full might behind the rescue and recovery;.” FEMA had prepositioned 2.5M meals and 3M liters of water ahead of the storm. The federal government deployed 16 urban search and rescue teams and 200 ambulances to the region, FEMA spokeswoman Jaclyn Rothenberg said. (Source: Bloomberg News 08/29/21) Mississippi Note: Nearly 113,000 Mississippi residents woke Aug. 30 without power as Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ida tore its way through the Magnolia State. The storm hit SW Mississippi counties hard, leaving the majority of residents in the dark. In Wilkinson County, more than 67 percent of residents while Hinds County had about 6,000 without power.
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