Among the 51 hurricanes known to have made landfall along Louisiana's 397-mile coast since the 1850s, Ida is one of three tied for the strongest winds in a land-falling hurricane. At landfall southwest of New Orleans at Port Fourchon, Ida's sustained winds were clocked at 150 mph and its gusts at 172 mph by ships in the port. It dumped up to 20 inches of rain in areas around the west shore of Lake Pontchartrain and sent a powerful storm surge ashore across much of the Gulf coast and up the Mississippi River. It will be weeks before the full impacts of its wind, storm surge and rain are known. More than a dozen deaths had been blamed on the storm in Gulf states. Researchers are still pulling together rainfall reports and gathering data from storm sensors strung out along the coast. The sustained winds of 150 mph at landfall place Ida on the top 10 list for the strongest sustained winds at landfall anywhere on the U.S. mainland. Its winds were 35 mph lower than the hurricane at the top of the list, the Labor Day storm in Florida in 1935 with its 185 mph sustained winds. Then there's Camille, which hit Mississippi in 1969 with 175 mph winds. Two other Florida storms are third and fourth on the list: Andrew in 1992 with 165-mph winds and Michael in 2018 with 160-mph winds. 📷: John Locher, AP #hurricaneida #lousiana