Hurricane Ida Was a Warning Shot

Marielle Songy
7 min readSep 6, 2021
Hurricane Ida, Photo Credit: National Weather Service

If you don’t know yourself before a major natural disaster…boy, are you gonna.

Every few years, Mother Nature kicks you back into the stone age. I guess it’s good to keep those survival skills sharp. Welcome to the Gulf Coast life.

The New Orleans metro area had about five days to prepare for what started as an ominous tropical depression and quickly grew into a major Category 4…

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Marielle Songy

Marielle Songy is a writer and journalist living in New Orleans. More of her work can be found at www.mariellesongy.com