100,000 households in Louisiana without electricity -- Pics

New Orleans levees intact as Gustav tears across Louisiana

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwnp8-GpZx5AKc5KJU6mZybS8sUw

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On Monday, regional utility company Entergy reported that 50 percent of New Orleans -
- just over 100,000 households -- was without electricity as Gustav's lashing winds
tore down power poles and turned loose objects into unguided missiles.

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More than half of Entergy customers lose power
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/more_than_half_of_entergy_cust_1.html

More than half of Entergy's customers in Louisiana were without power as of 11 a.m. today.

The company reported that 433,657 of its 796,000 customers in the state had lost electricity a little before midday.

Entergy has increased its team of emergency workers to 9,000, up from 8,000 Saturday night. The employees were culled from Entergy's staff and borrowed from various utility companies across the United States. The teams are staged in safe zones and will deploy to damaged areas once Gustav's winds slow to 35 miles per hour.

Disruptions are being caused by trees falling into overhead power lines as well as a blown-out transmission line between the 17th Street Canal and the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, which is preventing power from moving between the generating plant and substations in tthe region.

Click Here to See if Power is Out in Your Neighborhood: http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/want_to_know_if_power_is_on_in.html

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A New Orleans Police Department officer peers over the Industrial Canal levee
wall from the lower 9th Ward at the high water driven in by Hurricane Gustav.
In the background, upper right is the flooded offices of Southern Scrap.


Water continues to slosh over the flood wall on the city side of the Industrial Canal
in the 9th Ward of New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav blows through.


Hurricane Gustav winds and surge push water over the
Mandeville lakefront Monday afternoon September 1, 2008.


STILL OVERFLOWING---Water continues to flow over the Industrial Canal
at N. Claiborne, sending debris over as well. Monday, September 1, 2008.


Noel Blakely inspects where a tree fell from across
the street, narrowly avoiding his parked car on Monday.


As the winds of Hurricane Gustav diminish in Metairie, Cameron Miller
ventures outside to throw around a football on Monday. However, one of
Cameron's neighbors wasn't so lucky -- a tree fell on their house.


As the rains of Hurricane Gustav continue to fall, Jim Sieberth of the
Seven Oaks neighborhood in Baton Rouge looks at the fallen tree that ripped
half of his driveway away in Baton Rouge.


State: Some outside media feed false rumor mill
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/state_some_outside_media_feed.html

Street flooding remains minimal in Upper 9th Ward
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/street_flooding_remains_minima.html

More stories and pics here: http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/01/

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I'm glad they had minimal damage!!

the levees held in NOLA. Baton Rouge has been very hard hit, and we haven't heard from Houma-Thibodaux and vicinity yet. But there hasn't been widescale catastrophic loss of life and property.

If I remember rightly, it wasn't during the hurricane that NOLA drowned - it was afterwards.

Also, I just heard it was 1.2 million without power not 100,000.

I saw the story at this link and then i couldn't find it again...

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/01/

it's a disaster for the neighborhood immediately behind it, it's not going to flood the entire area. Elsewhere, the water is receding, and the danger to New Orleans is largely past. Bypass the MSM and watch the local news, you will get a better picture of what's happening. Links have been posted on DU.

as subsequent events have shown.

Photo: Wind damage in Houma

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/photo_wind_damage_in_houma.html

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Hurricane Gustav Damage

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/hurricane_gustav_damage.html

Richard Bezet examines the five-foot hole in his dining room ceiling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
after an oak tree fell through the roof of his house due to winds from Hurricane Gustav.

was very lucky this time, but Gustav was no Katrina.

Is everything ok? :(

Yes, they were and even luckier that Hanna has been downgraded too!

Ike is the next big one.... I haven't checked it's tracking today.

It could go west to NO or to FL and up the east coast to my area. :shrug:

But this is hurricane season... wait and see and be prepared!

Some places are having bad problems, as well as people/communities located out on the southern tip of LA too. kick.

nt