New Orleans is bracing for the monster storm Hurricane Ida to rapidly intensify and bring winds of up to 240km/h, life-threatening storm surge and flooding rain after it made landfall.The US National Hurricane Center warned that super-warm Gulf waters are magnifying Ida's destructive power, boosting it from a Category 2 storm to an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane in just 18 hours or less.It made landfall on Sunday afternoon (US time) and is expected to be the most powerful storm in Louisiana for more than 100 years.
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