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Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Ida

Posted by Nouman Chughtai on Sunday, November 8, 2009


Public safety officials from Louisiana to Florida said they will likely order evacuations today as Hurricane Ida — the only hurricane of the season so far to threaten U.S. shores — nears the Gulf Coast.
Escambia County, Fla., already ordered barrier island campgrounds evacuated, said Mike Stone, spokesman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Other evacuations will likely affect the "immediate coastal areas, mobile home residents and anybody in a flood-prone area," said John Kilcullen, director of plans and operations at Mobile County (Ala.) Emergency Management Agency.
Louisiana and Alabama also said evacuations were likely.
Jim Wright, who captains a charter fishing boat in Dauphin Island, Ala., said residents and boat owners on that barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico were either tying down or clearing out Sunday.
"We've got additional lines on the boat and buffers to protect it from the dock," Wright said. "Some of the boats have pulled out and gone where they can get away from the winds."


CRUISE LOG: Hurricane Ida forces cruise ships heading to Mexico to alter course
Ida packed 100-mph winds Sunday as it passed Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and was forecast to weaken as it travels north across the cooler waters of the Gulf, said Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The hurricane center forecast the storm's center to hit land Tuesday with winds of 70 mph, and to deliver up to 6 inches of rain and a storm surge of up to 5 feet. A hurricane warning was issued for Pascagoula, Miss., to Indian Pass, Fla. Ida is forecast to turn east after landfall and to cross the Florida Peninsula as a spread-out and disorganized storm, heading over the Atlantic Ocean by Thursday.
In Biloxi, Miss., some people were not fazed by Ida.
"I'll probably decide tomorrow whether we need to put up hurricane shutters," said Mike Lerner, owner of the Balmoral Inn. "It's projected only to be a Category 1. Even if it's a Category 2, I don't even board."
Also Sunday, more than 120 people died in mudslides and flooding in El Salvador. Feltgen said a Pacific Ocean storm was at fault, not Ida.

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