FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 record photo, Rescue unit hunt from victims arsenic they traverse the New Orleans 8th Ward successful the flooded metropolis of New Orleans. Water continues to emergence aft the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Ida looks an atrocious batch similar Hurricane Katrina, bearing down connected the aforesaid portion of Louisiana connected the aforesaid calendar date. But hurricane experts accidental determination are differences successful the 2 storms 16 years isolated that whitethorn beryllium cardinal and whitethorn marque Ida nastier successful immoderate ways but little unsafe successful others. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 record photo, Rescue unit hunt from victims arsenic they traverse the New Orleans 8th Ward successful the flooded metropolis of New Orleans. Water continues to emergence aft the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Ida looks an atrocious batch similar Hurricane Katrina, bearing down connected the aforesaid portion of Louisiana connected the aforesaid calendar date. But hurricane experts accidental determination are differences successful the 2 storms 16 years isolated that whitethorn beryllium cardinal and whitethorn marque Ida nastier successful immoderate ways but little unsafe successful others. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File) (AP2005)

Category 4 Hurricane Ida made landfall successful Louisiana connected Sunday -- the aforesaid calendar date, Aug. 29, arsenic Category 3 Katrina did 16 years earlier.

In 2005, Katrina caused levee breaches and catastrophic flooding successful New Orleans.

Katrina is the costliest tempest successful American history. Levee failures pushed Katrina’s decease toll to 1,833 and its wide harm to astir $176 cardinal successful existent dollars.

Meteorologists person improved forecasts and they anticipation that Louisiana is amended prepared than successful 2005 with a stronger levee system.

In a connection Sunday morning, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said successful part: “Ida is going to beryllium a precise superior trial for our levee systems.”

EXPLAINER: Ida akin to Katrina, but stronger, smaller

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Officials said Ida’s swift intensification from a fewer thunderstorms to a monolithic hurricane successful conscionable 3 days near nary clip to signifier a mandatory evacuation of the city’s 390,000 residents.

″Time is not connected our side,” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said. “The metropolis cannot contented a mandatory evacuation due to the fact that we don’t person the time.”

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