Date uploaded: 2021-09-25 20:20:22
Nearly a month after Hurricane Ida devastated parts of Louisiana and the northeast with severe flooding, the state is feeling the effects of the storm.
Thousands are still without power as workers repair downed power lines. Debris from the storm remain scattered around some communities, and garbage hasn't been collected for weeks in parts of New Orleans.
The remains of a man who was missing after a suspected alligator attack in the storm's floodwaters were found in the stomach of the animal.
Timothy Satterlee Sr., 71, was attacked by an alligator in flooded waters in Slidell, Louisiana, on Aug. 30, a day after Ida hit the state's shores. His wife witnessed the attack, which she reported took off his arm. She said she went to find help but he was missing when she returned.
The remains were identified as Satterlee this week using DNA samples, according to St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Charles Preston. The 504-pound gator was captured and killed earlier this month and human remains were found inside its belly.
In the town of Ironton, caskets that were swept away from their burial locations in above-ground tombs during the hurricane remain scattered and stuck in the mud throughout the community, CNN reported.
People are "shocked by the magnitude of the destruction," Haywood Johnson, the pastor of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Ironton, told the outlet.
"(B)ut they're even more so overwhelmed by their loved ones floating and ending up landing in the streets and people's yards and on the side of the levee and out in the field, and it's just, just overwhelming," he said.
📸. Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY, AP
