Though Louisiana’s largest electric utility, Entergy, estimates most residents in New Orleans will have power by Wednesday, recovery efforts outside of the city could be a much longer slog.
The Louisiana power grid’s failure in Hurricane Ida’s wake is familiar for Entergy Corp., which has grappled with outages after previous hurricanes
By Saturday morning, power was restored to about 282,000 customers from the peak of 902,000 who lost power after Ida. Louisiana’s 12 storm-related deaths included five nursing home residents evacuated ahead of the hurricane along with hundreds of other seniors to a warehouse in Louisiana, where health officials said conditions became unsafe.On Saturday evening, Dr. Joseph Kanter, a state health officer, ordered the immediate closure of the seven nursing facilities that sent residents to the Tangipahoa Parish warehouse facility.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Saturday the state was planning an exercise to assess its emergency response if needed. Predictions so far don’t show the system strengthening into a hurricane, but he said “even if it’s a tropical storm, we’re in no state to receive that much rainfall at this time.”“We can’t take the playbook we normally use because the people and assets are no longer where they would have been,” Edwards said.
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