#HURRICANE IDA AFTERMATH GENERATOR#

Police Chief Shaun Ferguson said there had been some arrests for stealing. John Bel Edwards said state officials also were working to set up distribution locations in other areas around the state.Ĭantrell ordered a nighttime curfew Tuesday, calling it an effort to prevent crime after Hurricane Ida left the entire city without power. The city was also using 70 transit buses as cooling sites and will have drive-thru food, water and ice distribution locations set up on Wednesday, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said. New Orleans officials announced seven places around the city where people could get a meal and sit in air conditioning. New Orleans and the rest of the region were under a heat advisory, with forecasters saying the combination of high temperatures and humidity could make it feel like 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday.

#HURRICANE IDA AFTERMATH GENERATOR#

Harris had no access to a generator and said the heat was starting to wear him down.

I don’t have no choice but to stay,” said Charles Harris, 58, as he looked for a place to eat Tuesday in a New Orleans’ neighborhood where Ida snapped utility poles and brought down power lines two days earlier. There was a glimmer of hope early Wednesday when power company Entergy announced its crews had turned “power on for some customers in Eastern New Orleans.” Still, power and water outages affected hundreds of thousands of people, many of them with no way to get immediate relief.

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