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For the city of Houma, Louisiana, the devastation from Hurricane Ida is apocalyptic.  Located 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, the community has seen major storms before, but never has the suffering been so great. A local bowling alley smashed to pieces, a supermarket almost blown apart, a clothing store destroyed, homes wrecked, business after business battered to the point of being unrecognizable. Everywhere, there are scenes that look like they have been eerily staged for a disaster movie. But the damage is real, and now serving as a backdrop to residents' survival stories.  Punishing winds of more than 120 mph for at least four hours - with gusts up to 150 mph - have left every home in the 100,000-population city damaged in some way. Aftermath: Bowl South bowling alley in Houma, Louisiana is now a pile of debris after being smashed by Hurricane Ida on Sunday. Pictured: Pro-shop manager Larry Grabert, 40, stands amid the remains of the venue, which he described as his 'sec

A ski resort near South Lake Tahoe rolled out its snow-making machines to help stave off the fast-spreading Caldor Firefight as large chunks of ash rained down on the mostly desolate tourist destination. Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort manager John Rice, who has managed the 2,000-acre resort in Twin Bridges for nearly three decades, told the San Francisco Chronicle that for the past two weeks he watched  the wildfire slowly approach the property until it finally reached the resort on Sunday as he watched from the  roof of his office. 'It came in from the west side, almost a bulls-eye right towards us, this big wall of fire,' he said.  But Rice and his co-manager were not caught unprepared and did what they could in the days leading up to Sunday, including taping up air ducts to block embers, moving heavy equipment into the resort's parking lots to spare them from damage.   They also made smart use of cannon-shaped water hydrants that are usually used for snowmaking and turned th