![]() ![]() The refrigerators, nebulisers, and oxygen therapy machines of the 39 residents were powerless. ![]() Air conditioners had rattled into silence. “But we didn’t know it was going to be that bad.”īy 10am, the lights had flickered out. “We knew it was coming,” 80-year-old Michael recalls as he stands in the shade under the building’s portico months later. This would be their first serious hurricane at Boyd. They had moved into the three-storey apartment building, close to the Mississippi River, about a year earlier. So as Hurricane Ida barreled towards New Orleans on August 29 last year, he figured he and his wife of 57 years, Charmayne, would be safe at Boyd Manor, the low-income senior centre where they lived on the ground floor. ![]() New Orleans, United States – Hurricane Ida was not Michael Corolla’s first storm.Īs a young merchant seaman, he weathered three separate hurricanes in the open ocean, riding supertankers up the crests of 15 metre (50ft) waves in the middle of the North Atlantic. ![]()
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