
'A lot more' than 700,000 people are still in the dark a week after Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana, governor says
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More than 700,000 people in Louisiana woke up in the dark Saturday as power restoration persists in being a difficult feat after Hurricane Ida battered the state.
"Electricity is one of the biggest challenges that we have across Southeast Louisiana. ... There's not an even rate of restoration going on, and that's always going to be the case. I'm always happy to see people getting powered up, and some people are going to be quite a while," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Saturday. The total number of customers without power as of noon Saturday was 718,559, which includes homes and businesses that equate "a lot more" people, Edwards said at a news conference in Livingston Parish. That's down from a peak of 1.1 million customers without power after the Category 4 hurricane made landfall last Sunday.
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