Nearly a year after Hurricane Ida slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast and devastated bayou communities on the southern end of Louisiana, is still struggling to recover the hard-hit city of Houma. Jonathan Foret (45) the executive director of the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center in Houma says that “Unfortunately, it looks apocalyptic out there”.
Roughly 30,000 peoples of southwest of New Orleans, confront a dismaying landscape: half-collapsed office buildings, roofless homes draped in sun-baked tarps, and boarded-up storefronts. Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers are parked on the outskirts of the city.
Houma and other hurricane-hit areas in Terrebonne Parish have now made some progress since Ida crashed into Louisiana on August 29 last year as a Category 4 hurricane, the worst to hit the state since Katrina in 2005, This had become one of the devastating storms.
According to the National Hurricane Center report, Ida was responsible for 87 deaths in the United States, including 30 in Louisiana. But the locals are saying that reconstruction efforts have been hampered by supply chain woes, a lack of qualified building contractors, inflation, conflicts with insurance companies, and other troubling issues.
Aimee Autin said that “Houma is like a ghost town, who was displaced from her public housing unit and experienced homelessness for several months. Like other disasters, Ida also bore psychological scars. according to Start Corp., a local nonprofit organization. In the wake of the storm, some are experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Haumea reveals how powerful hurricanes have become due to climate change.
