Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostHurricane Ida blasted ashore along the Louisiana coast on Sunday, with the eye of one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US arriving near the barrier island of Grand Isle.The powerful Category 4 storm made landfall on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, about 40 miles (64km) west of where Category 3 Katrina first struck land.Arriving with a barometric pressure of 930 millibars, Ida preliminarily goes down as tied for the fifth strongest…Read More