Most Of New Orleans Is Still Without Power [VIDEO]

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports:

The power was still out for more than 600,000 Entergy customers in Louisiana on Saturday, as the utility’s top executives said it continued to make slow progress fixing the worst ever storm damage to hit the state’s electricity infrastructure.

The damage to Entergy’s transmission infrastructure — to poles, sub-stations, distribution lines, and even the large heavy transmission lines that are essentially the life-blood of power for the metro area — is more than that caused by Hurricanes Katrina, Zeta and Delta combined.

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Power has been restored to all New Orleans hospitals. Entergy said it prioritized them in its power restoration plan. https://t.co/6Uz8KxKmLk

— NOLA.com (@NOLAnews) September 4, 2021

New Orleans city officials have readied a plan to provide free bus rides to shelters in Northern Louisiana or a neighboring state.

Buses will start transporting residents out of town on Saturday. ? https://t.co/vMUjT87D01

— NOLA.com (@NOLAnews) September 4, 2021

Why Hurricane Ida crippled the New Orleans power grid https://t.co/AnFlxprSCq pic.twitter.com/XIhqnZVATT

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 4, 2021