Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk for a Newsmaker edition, where we talk with people who are making the news.

In a moment, we'll be talking with Trevor Norman, the National Chapter Coordinator for Arrowbridge,

about the work they're doing coordinating volunteer GA pilots and aircraft to fly hurricane relief supplies and people into hard-hit Louisiana.

This is a fast-moving story, and after the interview, I'll give you updates, including

information about other pilot organizations that are also helping in the wake of the storm.

Hurricane Ida was the second most intense hurricane to strike the U.S. state of Louisiana on record,

only behind Hurricane Katrina.

I had to reach a peak intensity as it approached the northern Gulf Coast with maximum sustained

winds of 150 miles per hour. It made landfall this past Sunday, August 29th, on the Louisiana

coastline. The president approved emergency declarations for the states of Louisiana and Mississippi

before the hurricane made landfall. On Monday, Ida weakens steadily overland, becoming a tropical

depression as it turned to the north and northeast. Remnants of the storm produced a destructive

tornado and catastrophic flash flooding in the northeast. Yesterday, the governor of New Jersey declared a state of emergency due to flooding,

and this morning on Thursday, the governor of New York also declared a state of emergency.

In New York, more than half a foot of rain fell in just a few hours,

turning streets and subway platforms into rivers.

Emergency responders and boats rescued people from the rooftops of cars.

But Louisiana bore the brunt of this storm. Earlier today, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana

and the rest of the Louisiana congressional delegation wrote a letter asking for disaster relief funding.

In it they wrote, quote, Hurricane I slowly through louisiana causing catastrophic wind damage

and flooding in numerous parishes and leaving nearly a million people statewide without electricity

which experts say will take weeks to restore at this time many communities remain without access to

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