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  • People walk past the Joy Theatre in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. – Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm on August 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but had weakened to a tropical storm early August 30, 2021.The storm knocked out power for all of New Orleans, with more than a million customers across Louisiana without power, according to outage tracker PowerOutage.US. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Gas prices rise and parts of Mississippi River reverse course as Hurricane Ida slams New Orleans

    By Brian K. Sullivan, Sergio Chapa, and others
  • SpaceX Looks To Buy Small Texas Village To Build Next Generation SpaceportTech

    ‘The city of Starbase, Texas:’ Elon Musk suggests renaming SpaceX’s rocket town

    By Sergio Chapa, Justin Bachman, and others
  • Natural gas sits in storage tanks at the Amerada Hess gas processing plant adjacent to the Henry Hub, a facility operated by Chevron Corp. subsidiary Sabine Pipe Line LLC, in Erath, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Natural gas futures fell to an 11-month low after an Energy Department report today showed that U.S. stockpiles rose more than forecast last week. Henry Hub is the delivery point for New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) natural gas futures contracts. Photographer: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Gas at one U.S. hub is trading at $999. Last week it was at $4

    By Naureen S. Malik, Gerson Freitas Jr., and others