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Emergency workers and volunteers in rural Tennessee pushed to clean up as much debris as possible from recent deadly flooding Monday as the remnants of Hurricane Ida threatened to interrupt recovery efforts with another dousing expected overnight through Tuesday. Armstrong would visit Morris Music when he returned to New Orleans after moving away.Ī cluster of other sites that were integral to jazz’s early history in the city were also situated on South Rampart Street. Morris Karnofsky, the family’s son and Armstrong’s childhood friend, opened the city’s first jazz record shop on that same street, according to the park service. “Louis said it was the Karnofskys that instilled the love of singing in his heart,” jazz historian and retired photojournalist John McCusker said, according to WWL-TV. The family, who provided Armstrong a “second home,” lent him money to buy his first cornet. The business opened downtown in 1913 and had a residence above it where the late jazz legend would often eat meals. Armstrong would play a small tin horn as he worked on the coal and junk wagons, according to the National Park Service.
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The Karnofsky Tailor Shop, where a Jewish family employed Armstrong, collapsed Sunday during the storm. NEW ORLEANS - A storied New Orleans jazz site where a young Louis Armstrong once worked toppled when Ida blew through Louisiana as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the U.S. Mickey Welsh / The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network via Reuters “It’s going to be a long road and we are going to need a lot of help," he said.Ģ74d ago / 4:38 AM UTC The collapsed jazz club the Karnofsky Shop after Hurricane Ida ripped through New Orleans, on Aug. “Some areas will come back on in days, some areas will take weeks," he added.Ĭomparing Ida's impact to the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago, Nungesser said his "heart sinks" thinking about what the state had to go through to recover. Nungesser said first responders are going from house to house, checking on people's attics for any survivors.Īround 25,000 crews are also working "day and night" to restore power to more than 1 million people who were still without electricity Tuesday morning, Nungesser said. "Knowing that so many people stayed behind in places like Grand Isle and Lafitte where flood waters have devastated those areas, we expect there will be more people found that have passed," Nungesser said. “Too many people always ride these storms out and take their lives into their own hands.” The death toll from Hurricane Ida is likely to keep growing, Louisiana's Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser told the "TODAY" show Tuesday.