In Louisiana, hundreds of thousands remain without power and water after Ida.

In Jefferson Parish, much populous than the metropolis of New Orleans and close adjacent door, virtually each residents were either experiencing h2o outages oregon nether advisories to boil their water. Even arsenic the vigor was suffocating and air-conditioning astir nonexistent, drinking h2o successful astir of the parish was constricted to immoderate 1 had stocked earlier the tempest oregon could get aft waiting successful lines for hours.

“This has go basic-level subsistence,” said Steve Robinson, the elder pastor of Church of the King, which has a tract successful Kenner, wherever a enactment of cars rolled done arsenic volunteers from his congregation handed retired pallets of h2o and buckets packed with toiletries, flashlights, first-aid kits and nonperishable foods. They yet ran retired of lukewarm meals.

Lights began turning backmost on successful the French Quarter connected Wednesday night, but astir 594,000 customers remained successful the acheronian arsenic of Thursday morning, according to an Entergy spokesman. The inferior said it expected customers successful the Baton Rouge country to person powerfulness restored by Sept. 8.

There were an further 19,500 powerfulness outages successful Southern Mississippi, but Entergy expected powerfulness to beryllium restored successful the remainder of the authorities by Thursday evening.

This was life, upended, successful overmuch of the portion — an lipid authorities successful dire request of fuel, with places devastated by flooding near hopeless for water. More than a twelve hospitals person been evacuated and radical with superior aesculapian conditions were inactive waiting for assistance successful homes without powerfulness and down roads blocked by fallen trees.

At a quality briefing, Cynthia Lee Sheng, the Jefferson Parish president, reiterated that the parish was “a breached community” that did not person electricity, connection oregon gas. She said she had taken an aerial circuit implicit parts of the authorities connected Wednesday and had been stunned by the wide harm successful Grand Isle and Lafitte.

“I had nary thought however devastating the tempest was to specified an unthinkable magnitude of communities,” she said. “It looks similar matchsticks, similar a small heap of matchsticks.”

Other firefighters are crossing Lake Tahoe by vessel to support distant cabins and abrogation homes. Some skis resorts person turned connected snowfall machines to blast retired h2o crossed lifts and lodges.

Firefighters elsewhere successful the state, northeast of Chico, person reached a milestone by containing much than fractional of the Dixie fire, which is nearing 850,000 acres burned and is the second-largest blaze successful recorded authorities history.

After the Caldor occurrence descended the granite cliffs of the Tahoe basin connected Monday, firefighters positioned themselves successful the evacuated neighborhoods of Meyers and Christmas Valley straight southbound of Lake Tahoe. Night and day, occurrence crews are patrolling deserted streets to tamp retired the spot fires caused by flying embers.

“The upwind has been moving successful our favor,” said Jamie Moore, a spokesperson for the California Incident Management Team astatine the Caldor fire. But things could alteration quickly, helium added. “Look astatine the Dixie fire.”

Firefighters are hoping an country they cleared on a creek astir 8 miles southbound of the lake’s shores volition support the flames from traveling toward South Lake Tahoe and yet the tens of thousands of businesses and residences that rim the lake.

The blaze, which is 25 percent contained, has eaten up hillsides crossed from the Kirkwood skis resort, a 40-minute thrust southeast of the lake, and Mr. Monday said firefighters were battling spot fires and “squirrelly winds” successful the Kirkwood area.

But truthful far, helium added, the skis edifice had been successfully protected.

The deluge of rainfall connected Wednesday — more than fractional a ft fell successful conscionable a fewer hours — turned streets and subway platforms into rivers. Emergency responders successful boats rescued radical from the rooftops of cars. Hundreds of radical were evacuated from trains and subways.

The rainfall broke records acceptable conscionable 11 days earlier by Tropical Storm Henri, underscoring warnings from clime scientists of a caller mean connected a warmed planet: Hotter aerial holds much h2o and allows storms to stitchery spot much rapidly and turn ever larger.

Though the portion awoke to a sunny day, New York City’s subway lines remain astatine slightest partially suspended, on with commuter obstruction work crossed the region. Airports are unfastened but hundreds of flights person been canceled. Rescues continued, and immoderate rivers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania were inactive rising.

In New York City, the dormant ranged successful property from a 2-year-old lad to an 86-year-old woman, the constabulary said. Some drowned successful basement apartments successful Queens, wherever a strategy of makeshift and mostly illegally converted surviving spaces has sprung up.

Five radical were recovered dormant successful an flat analyzable successful Elizabeth, N.J., metropolis officials said Thursday. Another decease occurred successful Passaic, N.J., wherever the Passaic River breached its banks and fish flopped successful the streets.

The 3.15 inches of rainfall that fell successful Central Park successful 1 hr connected Wednesday eclipsed the record-breaking one-hour rainfall of 1.94 inches connected Aug. 21. The National Weather Service, struggling to picture the level of danger, declared a flash flood emergency successful New York City for the archetypal time.

In Bergen County, New Jersey’s astir populous county, County Executive James Tedesco, a erstwhile firefighter, said connected Thursday: “We person not implicit devastation but adjacent to it. This is arsenic atrocious arsenic I’ve ever seen it.”

Reporting was contributed by Anne Barnard, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maria Cramer, Isabella Grullón Paz, Matthew Haag, Jesus Jiménez, Michael Levenson, Eduardo Medina, Andy Newman, Azi Paybarah, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Ali Watkins and Ashley Wong.

The politician of Philadelphia, Jim Kenney, emphasized that portion the tempest whitethorn person been record-breaking, it was portion of a signifier of catastrophe caused by clime change.

“While the tempest continues to wreak havoc crossed the portion conscionable arsenic it has passim different parts of the country,” the politician said, “we indispensable besides enactment that utmost upwind events similar Ida are not isolated incidents. They are different denotation of the worsening clime crisis.”

Ron Harper, 87, said connected Thursday greeting that helium was confined to his 14th-floor flat successful a gathering adjacent the flooded Schuylkill River. He was told by gathering absorption that they would halt moving elevators determination due to the fact that the waters were continuing to emergence successful a store that serves the building.

“There are 2 levels of parking, and the h2o was rushing into that — I could spot erstwhile I was retired walking,” Mr. Harper said.

Some of the hardest-hit areas were successful the Philadelphia suburbs. In Montgomery County, officials said astatine a quality briefing that “the size and scope of the harm from this tempest has been vast,” with grounds flooding prompting hundreds of h2o rescues, and a imaginable tornado. Three radical had died successful the county, officials said, 2 seemingly from drowning.

“After past night’s rain, the Schuylkill River and Perkiomen Creek are continuing to rise,” said Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, the seat of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. “I privation to stress that they person not yet crested. Both waterways person already surpassed each clip records.”

The National Weather Service reported astatine slightest four tornadoes had touched down successful Maryland connected Thursday nighttime and 1 adjacent Mullica Hill, N.J.

Mitchelle Stephenson, a spokeswoman for Annapolis, said a tornado that landed adjacent the metropolis had near astir 2,500 residents without power, and that the metropolis had received reports of fallen trees. The occurrence and constabulary departments had closed streets to measure the damage, according to Ms. Stephenson, who said nary injuries had been reported.

Video connected social media showed strong, accelerated winds and roadways obstructed by downed utility poles, signs and trees.

Forecasters were acrophobic astir flooded rivers, and Wilmore Dam successful cardinal Pennsylvania was “overtopping” astatine 1 constituent with astir 3 feet of rainwater, said John Banghoss, a meteorologist with the Weather Service successful State College, Pa. About 42,000 residents were ordered to determination to higher ground.

Reporting was contributed by Jon Hurdle, Isabella Grullón Paz, Eduardo Medina, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Ashley Wong and Tiffany May.

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Here are immoderate section organizations successful the tempest area.

All Hands and Hearts prepared for Ida by stationing its catastrophe appraisal and effect squad successful Beaumont, Texas. Its volunteers volition participate areas affected by the tempest erstwhile they can, gathering archetypal needs that volition astir apt see chain-saw enactment to wide debris and trees, extortion tarping, mucking and gutting flooded houses, and sanitizing homes with mold contamination.

The Second Harvest Food Bank, which serves South Louisiana, has prepared much than 3,500 disaster-readiness nutrient boxes with items similar rehydration drinks and nutrition bars, arsenic good arsenic bottled water. It besides maintains cooking instrumentality that tin beryllium transported to vigor prepared meals. Donations of bottled h2o and cleaning supplies are welcome. Volunteers tin use to help, but donating money is the astir businesslike mode to assistance the assistance effort, the enactment said.

Culture Aid NOLA has acceptable up an impromptu cooking hub astatine the Howlin’ Wolf nightclub successful New Orleans utilizing thawing nutrient from the freezers of restaurants experiencing powerfulness outages. The meals volition beryllium distributed to radical successful need, said Julie Pfeffer, a director. The group, which was primitively formed to assistance radical during the pandemic, has a donations page. It needs volunteers, trucks and takeaway containers.

AirLink is a nonprofit humanitarian formation enactment that ships aid, exigency workers and aesculapian unit to communities successful crisis. It has joined Operation BBQ Relief to proviso equipment, cooks and volunteers to hole meals for radical affected by the storm. Donations are welcome.

SBP, primitively known arsenic the St. Bernard Project, was founded successful 2006 by a mates successful St. Bernard Parish who were frustrated by the dilatory effect aft Hurricane Katrina. It focuses connected restoring damaged homes and businesses and supporting betterment policies. Its Hurricane Ida program needs donations, which volition wage for supplies for location rebuilding and protective instrumentality for squad members.

A fig of unpaid rescue groups run nether immoderate saltation of the sanction Cajun Navy. One is Cajun Navy Relief, a unpaid catastrophe effect squad that became a ceremonial nonprofit enactment successful 2017; it has provided alleviation and rescue services during much than a twelve of Louisiana’s floods, hurricanes and tropical storms. The squad has identified supplies that are needed and is accepting donations.

Rebuilding Together New Orleans, which uses unpaid labour to repair homes, accepts donations to assistance with its work. The enactment has besides created an online privation list, and a hotline number: 844-965-1386.

Bayou Community Foundation works with section partners successful Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish and Grand Isle successful coastal southeast Louisiana. It has acceptable up an Ida alleviation fund.

Louisiana Baptists, a statewide web of 1,600 churches, has an online form for radical to petition assistance successful recovery. Its alleviation efforts see the removal of trees from homes and the tarping of roofs, arsenic good arsenic meals, laundry services and counseling. Those wishing to donate can spell here.

National organizations are lending a hand.

AmeriCares, a health-focused alleviation and improvement organization, is responding to Ida successful Louisiana and Mississippi and matching donations. Vito Castelgrande, the person of its Hurricane Ida team, said the enactment would statesman assessing harm successful the hardest-hit communities erstwhile it is harmless to travel.

Mercy Chefs, a Virginia-based nonprofit group, was founded successful 2006 aft Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the hometown of its founder, Gary LeBlanc. The enactment has served much than 15 cardinal meals to radical affected by earthy disasters oregon who person different needs. The radical has deployed 2 mobile kitchens to service blistery meals successful Ida’s aftermath and is accepting donations.

GoFundMe has created a centralized hub with verified GoFundMe fund-raisers to assistance those affected by Ida. It volition beryllium updated with caller fund-raisers arsenic they are verified.

Project HOPE has sent an exigency effect squad with 11 aesculapian volunteers and has distributed 8,000 hygiene kits, which see items similar shampoo, soap, a toothbrush, deodorant and first-aid supplies. Donations tin beryllium made solely for Hurricane Ida exigency relief.

The Red Cross has mobilized hundreds of trained catastrophe workers and alleviation supplies to enactment radical successful evacuation shelters. About 600 volunteers were prepared to enactment Ida alleviation efforts, and shelters person been opened successful Louisiana and Mississippi, with cots, blankets, comfortableness kits and ready-to-eat meals. The enactment has besides positioned products needed for humor transfusions. Donations tin beryllium made done redcross.org, oregon 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767), oregon by texting the connection REDCROSS to 90999.

The Salvation Army has prepared tract kitchens and different alleviation supplies to help on the Gulf Coast.

United Way of Southeast Louisiana is collecting donations for a alleviation fund to rebuild and supply semipermanent assistance, including assemblage grants.