It’s been just over a week since Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana.
More than 500,000 customers in Louisiana still lacked power Monday morning as the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Ida stretched into its second week—with some parts of the state bracing for blackouts to last through the end of this month. ... [+]
August 29, 2021. - Hurricane Ida struck the coast of Louisiana Sunday as a powerful Category 4 storm, 16 years to the day after deadly Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern US city of New Orleans."Extremely dangerous Category 4 Hurricane Ida makes landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana," the National Hurricane Center wrote in an advisory. Down from the roughly 600,000 without power on Sunday, about 510,000 of Louisiana’s over 2.
Six parishes still have nearly all of their residents in the dark—Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. James and St. Helena—and may continue to face widespread outages for weeks more, Entergy Corporation President Philip May
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