New Orleans: The Louisiana community being beaten by Hurricane Ida faces a new danger when they start a big task to clean up debris and repair damage due to storms: the possibility of weeks without power in heat, hot late summer heat.
Ida destroyed the regional electricity network, leaving the entire city of New Orleans and hundreds of thousands of other Louisiana residents in the dark without a clear time line when power will return.
Some areas outside New Orleans also suffer from flood damage and large structures.
“Of course there are more questions than answers.
I can’t tell you when the power will be restored.
I can’t tell you when all debris will be cleaned and repaired,” Louisiana Gov.
John Bel Edwards said at a press conference on Monday.
“But what I can tell you is that we will work hard every day to provide as much assistance as we can.” President Joe Biden met on Monday with Bell Edwards and Mississippi GOV.
Tate Reeves along with the mayor of cities and parishes is most affected by the Ida storm to receive updates about the impact of the storm, and to discuss how the federal government can provide assistance.
“We coordinate closely with state and local officials every step,” Biden said.
Rescuers on the ship, helicopters and high water trucks carry hundreds of people trapped by floods for safety Monday, and they plan to go to the door to the door in a hard area to make sure everyone comes out ok.
The power crew also rushed to the country.
The governor said 25,000 utility workers were on the ground in Louisiana to help restore electricity, with more on the road.
However, his office described the damage to the electricity network as “disaster,” and power officials said it could be weeks before electricity was restored in several places.
More than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi are left without power because Ida is driven on Sunday with a wind reaching 150 mph (240 kph).
The wind speed ties it for the fifth strongest storm that ever crashes into the land.
On Monday night, the storm was reduced to tropical depression with wind to 35 mph (56 kph), although fortune tellers still warned heavy rain and threats of flooding for parts of the Tennessee and Ohio valleys.
The storm was blamed for at least two deaths – a driven driver in New Orleans and someone who was beaten by a tree that fell outside Baton Rouge.
Pamela Mitchell said Monday he was thinking of leaving New Orleans until the strength returned, but his 14-year-old daughter, Michelle, was determined to stay and was preparing to clean the fridge and hit the ice crate.
Mitchell had spent a hot and scary night at home while Ida’s wind screamed, and she thought the family could give up.
“We left a week before, with Zeta,” he said, considering the blackouts during a storm that hit the city of autumn last.
Other city residents rely on generators – or neighbors who have it.
Hank Fanberg said the two neighbors had offered him access to their generators.
He also has plans for food.
“I have a gas grill and grill of charcoal,” he said.
The storm blew over on the 16th anniversary of Katrina, a 2005 storm that violated the New Orleans embankment, destroyed the city and was blamed at 1,800 deaths.
This time, New Orleans escaped from a flood that was feared by several people afraid.
But city officials still urge people who are evacuated to stay away for at least a few days due to lack of strength and fuel.
Environmental Protection Agency A.S.
Exposing emergency fuel relief for Louisiana and Mississippi, immediately effectively, on Monday night.
It will end on September 16.
Some places also deal with water problems.
Eighteen water systems come out, have an impact of more than 312,000 people, and 14 additional systems that affect 329,000 other people are under boiled water counsel, Edwards said Monday.
Storm rotates and collapses the giant tower that carries the main transmission line above the Mississippi River to the New Orleans area, causing a broad blackout, the authorities and local authorities said.
The electricity company said more than 2,000 miles of transmission lanes out of the service, along with 216 substations.
The tower survived Katrina.
The storm also leveled the utility pole, shifting trees to the power line and caused the transformer to explode.
In the southwest corner of Mississippi, the entire environment is surrounded by flooding, and many roads cannot be passed.
Some tornadoes were reported, including the alleged twister in Saraland, Alabama, who tore the roof of a motel and flipped wheels 18, injuring the driver, according to the National Weather Service.
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