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New Orleans Evacuates Senior Home Residents as Power Outages Persist
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0:47Now PlayingMore than 800,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana - about 36% of all utility customers - were still without power on Friday following Hurricane Ida.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the city on Friday started helping to relocate residents of senior homes. At the Renaissance Place senior home, dozens of residents lined up to get on minibuses equipped with wheelchair lifts after city officials said they determined conditions at the facility were not safe and evacuated it.
On Saturday, the city was to start providing daily transportation for other residents seeking to leave for public shelters, Cantrell said.
The storm knocked out electricity to more than 1 million customers in Louisiana, but almost all lights in the city should be back on by Wednesday, according to Entergy, the company that provides power to New Orleans and much of southeast Louisiana in the storm’s path.
The utility issued a statement asking for patience and acknowledging the heat and misery in the storm's wake. More than 25,000 workers from 40 states are trying to fix 14,000 damaged poles, more than 2,200 broken transformers and more than 150 destroyed transmission structures.
The outlook was bleaker south and west of the city, where Ida's fury fully struck. The sheriff's office in Lafourche Parish cautioned returning residents about the difficult situation that awaited them - no power, no running water, little cellphone service and almost no gasoline.
-- Associated Press
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