Ida was previously deemed "life-threatening", drawing comparisons to Hurricane Katrina ... situation there is more desperate as people wait atop their roofs and inside their attics to be saved ...

The decision to evacuate Houston in 2005 - as Hurricane Rita advanced just weeks after Katrina - led to 20-hour jams and the deaths of more than 100 people ... parts of the roof off, rain came ...

According to information provided by Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre, more than two dozen people, including ... said ...