Officials and residents agreed that the state was scarred but that it had evaded widespread devastation as Ida moved through Monday as a weakened but still threatening tropical storm.
on Sunday as a Category 4 storm, had left his home largely untouched.
Reeves said some federal staff members dedicated to Mississippi could be freed up to go to Louisiana, where residents of some of the hardest-hit areas“While the winds have died down a bit, it is still a dangerous storm,” Reeves said, warning that the state would get “a significant amount of rainfall” as Ida pushed northeast at 8 mph.Nearly 86,000 customers in Mississippi wereMonday evening.
Residents in low-lying areas of Hancock County were particularly vulnerable to a storm surge that exceeded 8 feet. Campbell, who lives in Ocean Springs, fought off sleep well into early Monday. A bayou is near her home, and she worried that a high tide expected before 4 a.m. Monday could bring floodwaters to her front door.
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