New Orleans Metro-Area Residents Rely on Each Other After Hurricane Ida

Without electricity, gas, food, or cellphone connection, residents help each other

Bobby Matherne sits on a gas barrel as locals prepare to refuel a cell phone tower in Jefferson Parish, La., on Sept. 4, 2021. Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, New Orleans bakes in a strange silence.

The muffled buzz of a few generators and the splatter of cars cutting through inches-deep water are the only modern noises. A thick pudding of bayou mud covers the ground. For a while, there’s no barrier between nature and the bayou’s people.