On a Sunday afternoon, hurricane Ida made landfall in the American state of Louisiana. There are a ton of images and videos related to the storm all over the internet. This clip was shared by NOAA Hurricane Hunters which is a government organization that has left the netizens spine-chilled.
Hurricane Ida is a powerful F4 category hurricane that has swept up the southern coast of North America already.
Only the experts and scientists can get a proper look at the eye of the storm. But the two pilots somehow managed to capture the moment before it made landfall.
The viral clip features two pilots who fly into the eye of hurricane Ida. In this video, the pilots can be seen bouncing around in their seats as they pass through the hurricane.
While sharing this video, they wrote, ‘OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO -Flying into the eye of Category 4 Hurricane #ida on NOAA WP-3D Orion #NOAA43 Miss Piggy during this morning’s mission on August 29, 2021. Credit: Lt, Cmdr. Doremus, NOAA Corps.’
The post has accumulated more than 4.5 lakh views till now and the numbers are increasing. It also gained a lot of comments from all over the world as netizens expressed their opinions and thoughts. A Facebook user wrote, ‘it’s amazing how calm and sunny it is in the center of a hurricane’, while another added, ‘oh how amazing that would be!! Terrifying, but holy moly what an experience!’
Power was knocked out in all of New Orleans and people leaving in the unprotected areas were required to evacuate the areas in advance.
Here’s what the internet had to say about this little boy: ‘He can defeat the whole world with his cuteness’, said a user while another commented, ‘This child literally motivates me… Teaches me about perseverance… Tears in my eyes’.