Hurricane Harbor: IDA OVER LAND MOVING NORTH VERY SLOWLY... Ups Ante for Serious Destruction INLAND ... All the 2 to NOLA & Concerned on Lake Ponchartrain. Some Issuew with Flooding Now Happening. Tornadoes.

This is the radar at 5 PM.

The black marker is where Mike is...

... he's in Boutte Louisiana.

He took shelter in a hotel.

And will now be easily in the EYE WALL.

Spaghetii Models Mike...

IDA clearly moving North.

Slower than NHC forecast.

Still a Major Hurricane inalnd, part of it is over water so that feeds it and sustains it and a good part of it is over marsh land, low country, bayou (we call that brown water) so being "over land" is only half the story. This especially impacts New Orleans as they already have windows blown out in downtown Nola, there is damage everywhere and while minor damage the weakening from the long period under strong Tropical Storm force conditons and hurricane gusts have weakened everything so that when hit by the eye wall things will go flying fast and damages go up.

This tweet refrences the problems in Belle Chase.

A levee is being overtopped SE of Nola.

TWC has spoken on it.

You have the Mississippi River.

You have Lake Ponchartrain.

Both have their own storm surge problems.

From Zoom Earth.

1. Still 130 MPH Cat 4 inland.... moving North slowly.

2. Right sided weather slamming Mississippi ... tornado warnings along the Gulf Coast to E of IDA.

3. Cone shows NNW as per NHC last forecast but radar clearly shows North movement currently.

Is that a jog? If so it's been a long jog. It's going to be a very long night. Ida stayed East of many of the better storm chasers who located further to the West and just tracing across Houma that has been under this barrage of weather for a long while. Morgan City and Baton Rouge out of the Eye's path. Also remember Mississippie juts into Louisiana so as this moves North it impacts places in both states.

Hospitals have lost roofs, homes, churches ...this is just a very slow moving disaster that has done everything right to create a more perfect disaster.

Flooding in La Place, Louisiana a small place between the river and the Lake.

Watching both channels during coverage.

Watching Cantore in New Orleans as well.

But this highlights the problems developing now.

Also some discussion about a Shell Oil Platform that came loose it's hard to get hard data there so don't be surprised if there are stories you hear about tomorrow that you don't hear about today. Water is flowing accross the roadside above and there were fish seen in the water. The levels of misery here are too long to even count. Strong Category 4 Hurricanres near Cat 5 at landfall moving tediously slowly inland will do that.

While the bulk of Ida is over land, look how much moisture (fuel) is feeding it... deep rusty reds training in over Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana all night long.......

Again main problems so far are listed below:

1. Rapid Intensification moving towards Landfall.

2. Eye wall replacement on landfall (expands eye size and area under 150 MPH winds)

3. Slows down to a Crawl North while battering cities like Houma.

4. Current track makes a long tedious night of watching New Orleans and surrounding area for flooding.

So if you are in the path of this deadly storm please hunker down, monitor it for any changes in forward motion and track and stay where you are safe. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best but so far we keep getting the worst case scenario sadly.

And know we are only just starting to move towards the heart of the Hurricane Season.