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Hurricane Ida destroyed a highway in Mississippi: 2 people killed, 10 more injured

Barbara Cochran said she was going to bed on Monday evening, August 30, when she heard a loud rumble outside her home in the southeastern Mississippi countryside. Writes about it ABC News.

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The woman said she went out on the porch to see what happened, but she never saw anything.

About 10 minutes after she returned inside, she heard a second loud crash. Moments later, Cochran heard the crack for the third time. Then she heard sirens wail, "something like a woman's scream."

Two people were killed and at least 10 injured on August 30, when seven vehicles, one after another, crashed into a deep hole on the highway following the collapse of Hurricane Ida.

"Heavy rain caused the collapse of two-lane Highway 26, and drivers may not have noticed that the roadway in front of them had disappeared," Mississippi State Patrol Trooper Cal Robertson said.

He claims that some of the vehicles ended up on top of each other. When the hurricane passed through the Mississippi, rainfall was 33 cm, according to the National Weather Service.

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“You can imagine driving at night in heavy rain,” Robertson said. “It’s a solid wall of water.”

State military personnel, emergency personnel and rescue teams arrived at the crash site about 60 miles (96 km) northeast of Biloxi, finding that roads going east and west were destroyed.

George County Sheriff Keith Howard said the emergency services were called by a man whose car fell into a hole.

"He said he was driving and all of a sudden he wasn't driving anymore," Havard said. “He didn’t understand what happened.”

The vehicles were later lifted by a crane, leaving debris at the bottom of the pit. The drone video shows how the shaft under the road is being washed out.

“It's a landslide, which means the ground underneath the roadway and embankment was saturated with water, and right now we can tell what caused the slide,” said Kelly Castleberry, district engineer for the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

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Jerry Lee, 49, of Lusedale, was pronounced dead at 01:20, and Kent Brown, 49, of Leaksville, was pronounced dead 10 minutes later, County Coroner George DeAnn Murra said.

George County School said one of its students was hospitalized with serious injuries. Local schools were closed on August 31 because a collapsed highway created problems for buses and other vehicles.

Transportation Commissioner for Southern Mississippi Tom King said there was nothing unusual about the soil at highway collapses. Work crews check other highways in areas affected by heavy rain.

According to the Mississippi Department of Transportation, between 3100 and 5700 vehicles average on the highway per day.

“It will take us time to redesign, fix and make the highway safe for people,” King said.

Mike Dillon, pastor of Crossroads Church, which is located near the crash site, said he learned about the accident in the morning from the pages of the prayer community on the Internet. Like many local residents, he went to the crash site and prayed.

“We’re a very close-knit community,” Dillon said, “and we’re going to get through this with the help of the Lord.”

Hurricane Ida hit the coast on August 29 as a Category 4 hurricane, one of the most powerful ever to hit the continental United States. He cut electricity across much of southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi, ripping rooftops off buildings and causing widespread flooding, triggering a wave of ocean water that briefly altered the flow of the Mississippi River.

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