More than a week after Hurricane Ida made landfall in the region, hundreds of thousands in Louisiana and thousands in Mississippi remained without power.
More than a week after Hurricane Ida made landfall in the region, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi remained without power as a new storm front moved in.
According to PowerOutage.us, the numbers amounted to 495,384 Louisiana customers and 4,656 in Mississippi without power as of Monday afternoon.The presidential motorcade drives past an area affected by Hurricane Ida as U.S. President Joe Biden begins his tour of the hurricane-affected areas in Louisiana, September 3, 2021.
"Soil conditions are saturated or nearly saturated and heavy rainfall may quickly lead to flash flooding," the warning said. Utility group Entergy said in a company statement Monday morning: "Storms could hamper restoration in areas where conditions become unsafe for our restoration team to continue its work."also reported that 54% or 513,000 of its customers had already had their power restored, out of 948,000 total who lost power during Hurricane Ida.
About 902,000 of effected Entergy customers were in Louisiana. As of Monday, the company said it had restored power to nearly half of those, or 467,000, including
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