USA Today
@USATODAY·35.4K videos

Grand Isle Mayor talks communication issues following Hurricane Ida | USA TODAY

Posted

September 2, 2021

Views

14,883

Likes

116

Comments

88

Engagement

1.37%

Search the Record

Indexed

Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.

Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.

Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line

Segments

YouTube Description

as posted by the channel

Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelle talks communication network issues that continue to hinder efforts to help community hit by Hurricane Ida

Electricity experts and regulators who surveyed Hurricane Ida's destruction said the overwhelming damage to Entergy's electric transmission system in Louisiana was probably unavoidable.

Around 1,051 cell sites were down across the region, leaving large swaths of the state with spotty cellular coverage. On Monday, more than half of the area's cell towers were offline, primarily due to power outages

» Subscribe to USA TODAY

» Watch more on this and other topics from USA TODAY

» USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR.

#Hurricane #HurricaneIda #Louisiana

Guests & Subjects Covered

Hurricane Ida RELATED ElectricityHurricane Ida'sOn MondayVR Hurricane HurricaneIda Louisiana

Sentinel Indexing in Progress

Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.

All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.

Grand Isle Mayor talks communication issues following Hurricane Ida | USA TODAY · USA Today · Sentinel