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The center of Hurricane Ida appears to have shifted a little to the right of the forecast track this afternoon. Is that just a wobble, or a trend? The answer could result in the worst impacts shifting a little east, perhaps including the New Orleans area.
Sixteen years ago today, Robert Ricks at the National Weather Service in New Orleans issued a sobering Urgent Weather Message with very frightening language in advance of Hurricane Katrina. It would turn out to be prophetic as much of the city flooded when levees broke. The NWS New Orleans has sent a similar tweet this afternoon urging residents under any type of evacuation order to leave:
