In one Louisiana bayou city, Hurricane Ida is still wreaking havoc

Hurricane Ida is still wreaking havoc on a Louisiana bayou city: 'It looks apocalyptic out there'

Nearly a year after Hurricane Ida slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast and devastated bayou communities on the southern end of Louisiana, the hard-hit city of Houma is still struggling to recover.

“Unfortunately, it looks apocalyptic out there,” said Jonathan Foret, 45, the executive director of the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center in Houma. “It feels like you’re on the set of a movie and the zombies are coming out. It’s really disheartening.”

In this city of roughly 30,000 people southwest of New Orleans, locals confront a dismaying landscape: boarded-up storefronts, half-collapsed office buildings, roofless homes draped in sun-baked tarps, Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers parked on the outskirts of town.

Houma and other storm-beaten areas in Terrebonne Parish have made some progress since Ida crashed into Louisiana as a Category 4 storm Aug. 29 last year, becoming one of most destructive hurricanes to hit the state since Katrina in 2005. Ida was responsible for the deaths of 87 people in the United States, including 30 in Louisiana, according to a National Hurricane Center report.

But locals say rebuilding efforts have been hampered by supply chain woes, inflation, a shortage of qualified building contractors, conflicts with insurance companies and other vexing issues.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-louisiana-bayou-city-hurricane-ida-still-wreaking-havoc-rcna44186


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