Photos: From Donaldsonville south to Thibodaux and Houma, damage from Hurricane Ida
Traveling from Plaquemine through Donaldsonville to Houma and Thibodaux, see the effects of Hurricane Ida and some of the people affected, Monday, August 30, 2021, the day after the storm moved through.
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In Donaldsonville, Blaine Castrogovannie steps over the trunk of a snapped and fallenpine tree as he cleans up branches in his Raynaud Drive yard, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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Raymond Williams, left, talks about the tall oak trees that threatened his home, sitting next to his friend Patricia Navarre, right, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday. They're from Napoleonville, and were at the Assumption Parish Community Center, which was taking in people needing shelter, including Morgan City's Elizabeth Mason, center.
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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter makes its approach to land near the Barry P. Bonvillain Community Center in Houma, dropping off a load of eight people just airlifted from Grand Isle at the shelter there on Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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After being airlifted out of Grand Isle Monday afternoon, August 30, 2021, Jana Freeman, left, and her boyfriend Chris Palmer, center, talk with Coast Guard survival technician Jonathan Stamper, right, after Stamper's helicopter dropped them off in a parking lot near the Barry P. Bonvillain Civic Center they were to take shalter at in Houma, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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Beth Markham, center, tells the tale she and her husband Timmy Valdiviez, right, lived through at the Ashland North Campground in Houma, where the camper they rented lost its roof and walls, and much of its floor, during Hurricane Ida's rampage Sunday night, as they sit outside the shelter set up inside Barry P. Bonvillain Civic Center in Houma, Monday, August 30, 2021. At left, Angelique Hebert lays her head onthe shoulder of husband Wilfred Hebert, after the two homeless people living in a tent under a Houma overpass were flooded out, losing tent, clothes and all their food.
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In Donaldsonville, Regina Talbert points out how a large tree just missed her daughter's bedroom at their rented house on Lafourche Street, after the tree crashed down during the high winds of Hurricane Ida the day before, Monday, August 30, 2021.
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Piles of crumbled bricks lay on Main Street street and sidewalk in front of a demolished building in Houma, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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Cars pass a snapped telephone pole sitting vertically on Cnal Street near barataria Ave., Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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Two men work on securing tarps to a damaged roof on a home on La. 308 just north of Thibodaux, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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Metal facade elements fla in a sligh breezze at a bedraggled Conoco gaas station in Houma, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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In Thibodaux, the roofing elements stripped from retail spaces in a small strip mall are missing, seen Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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Men clean up storm brances outside a home in Houma, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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As thousands scramble to clean up fallen trees, branches and other debris, a man and a woman take a time out on the porch of a house in hard-hit Houma, Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.
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Sign for a car sales lot lies stretched across the road in Houma, as cars navigate past it on Monday, August 30, 2021, after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday then marched inland.