As if Louisianans didn't have it bad enough

[iemanja]

The temps are in the mid-90s and heat index in the triple digits.

More than a million Louisianans who have no electricity after Hurricane Ida are facing a dire situation as temperatures climb into the 90s and feels-like temperatures hit triple digits.

The National Weather Service issued heat advisories for Tuesday and Wednesday for portions of southeast Louisiana and southeast and southern Mississippi. Heat index values in some places could reach 105 degrees on Tuesday and 106 on Wednesday.

That warning comes as Louisiana's largest electricity provider, Entergy, says customers could experience outages for more than three weeks.

In a Facebook update Tuesday, officials in St. Charles Parish said the outages could last even longer.

https://weather.com/news/news/2021-08-31-hurricane-ida-impacts-louisiana-new-orleans-power-outages-heat

Hoping that at least the weather cools down for them.

[msongs]

1. no water, no sewer, no electricity, no food, no income. not looking good nt

[Maru Kitteh]

7. No hospital beds.

[iemanja]

2. More

As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, 1,008,551 Louisiana homes and business were still without electricity, according to poweroutage.us. That could represent several million people.

The outages have also affected water treatment plants. Between the plants that have no electricity and those damaged by flooding, about 441,000 people in 17 parishes had no water, the Associated Press reported. Another 319,000 were under boil-water advisories.

New Orleans officials have told residents who left the city because of the hurricane to stay away.

Same source as above.

[multigraincracker]

3. Ya'll come on up to Michigan.

Ida makes it turn East, it will draw cool dry air down from Canada all this week with highs in the mid 70s.

[iemanja]

4. About the same in MN too.

But people can't easily pick up and move. That costs A LOT of money.

[multigraincracker]

5. I was thinking a week or

2 vacation. Come December you might want to be back home anyway.

[iemanja]

6. I'm not in Louisiana

But I have to say that vacation talk is a bit tone deaf of you. All that costs money, and people stuck in places like New Orleans tend to be poor.

[multigraincracker]

8. Sorry. But there are lots of folks in

the Mid/West that moved up here because they were poor.

[dutch777]

9. It would be an interesting study to see what and who gets power and other systems when

Hospitals have their own generators and while it doesn't provide full power, it's enough to maintain basic operations IF they have water and sewer. A big IF unless the water and sewer pumps and such get powered up quickly AND there is no flood damage to systems. The issue of Covid and bed availability will be a thing as one may assume heart attacks and heat related complications with so much damage and no AC will be a bigger than normal number on top of Covid.

My bet would be they will have the more well to do neighborhoods, hotels, bars and restaurants back on line long before the poorer areas of town see their lights on again.

[iemanja]

10. undoubtedly nt.