Louisiana Power Outages Could Last for Weeks, Up to 30 Days in Some Areas
Hurricane Ida Leaves Indelible Mark in Louisiana
The Epoch Times reports:
People living in the areas hit by Hurricane Ida could be without power for weeks, a large utility provider said Tuesday.
Entergy, which delivers electricity to some 3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, said it restored power to 85,000 customers who were affected by the hurricane, which slammed into Louisiana on Sunday—plunging New Orleans into darkness—before moving into Mississippi.
But the provider also said that people in the hardest-hit areas “could experience power outages for weeks.”
Some 840,000 households and businesses in Louisiana, and 25,000 in Mississippi, serviced by Entergy remained without power on Tuesday. Over one million outages in Louisiana were tracked on PowerOutage.us.
Some Entergy customers were told they’d have to wait 30 days for electricity to return.
