With power due back for almost all of New Orleans by next week, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is strongly encouraging residents who evacuated because of Hurricane Ida to begin returning home. But outside the city, the prospects of recovery appeared bleaker.
for a man they said shot another man to death after they both waited in a long line to fill up at a gas station in suburban New Orleans.
Reggie Brown, 68, was among those waiting to join fellow residents on a bus. He said residents, many in wheelchairs, have been stuck at the facility since Ida. Elevators stopped working three days ago and garbage was piling up inside, he said. The residents were being taken to a state-run shelter, the mayor’s office said.A phone message for the company that manages the Renaissance site, HSI Management Inc., was not immediately returned.
Entergy offered no promises for when the lights will come back on in the parishes outside New Orleans, some of which were battered for hours by winds of 100 mph or more.in some of those spots, touring a neighborhood in LaPlace, a community between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain that suffered catastrophic wind and water damage that sheared off roofs and flooded homes.
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