‘Like a monster tried to get in’: New Orleans, scarred by Katrina, surveys Ida’s wreckage

Residents grapple with damaged buildings and widespread power outages - but find reasons to be thankful

As the sun rose over the city of New Orleans, the streets quiet but for the crunch of detritus under foot, residents in the city's Lower Ninth Ward awoke to assess the damage.

This neighbourhood bore some of the worst scars of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when New Orleans's levee system failed and submerged the Lower Ninth in a storey of water, sweeping away lives and livelihoods.