MORE THAN ONE MILLION PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA WITHOUT POWER

Tue 31 August 2021:

According to the US Energy Department, around 1.1 million individuals in the United States – the vast majority in the state of Louisiana – are without power as a result of Hurricane Ida’s destruction over the weekend.

According to a press release from the Department of Energy, “as of 7:00 a.m. EDT on August 31, there are roughly 1.1 million customer disruptions due to Ida, including approximately 1 million outages in Louisiana.”

This evening 1.1 million electric customers remain without power due to #HurricaneIda.

For the 2nd night in a row #PuertoRico is experiencing rolling blackouts, with peaks of 150k customers out, due to power generation issues.
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— PowerOutage.us (@PowerOutage_us) August 31, 2021

Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Louisiana on Sunday, but was downgraded to a tropical storm by Monday afternoon.

According to the announcement, a majority of oil and natural gas production stations on federal land in the US section of the Gulf of Mexico were still operating at a reduced capacity as of Monday afternoon. The refineries in Louisiana shut down, affecting 2.3 million barrels of oil per day, and they won’t be able to reopen until power is restored, according to the release.

According to the press release, Ida is now traveling across Tennessee with maximum sustained winds of 30 miles per hour. At least three persons have died as a result of hurricane-related incidents.

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