Dive Summary:
- More than 240,000 Louisiana residents are reportedly without power, while an additional 11,000 and 5,000 are without power in Mississippi and Arkansas respectively.
- Entergy came under fire over the weekend from local government for its “slow restoration pace.”
- Jefferson Parish President John Young said the widespread outages were hurting businesses’ recovery from the storm and he hopes the state’s Public Service Commission will investigate the matter.
From the article:
About a quarter of a million customers remained in the dark Monday in Louisiana and Mississippi, days after Isaac inundated the Gulf Coast with a deluge that still has some low-lying areas under water.
Most of those were in Louisiana, where utilities reported nearly 240,000 people without power as of Monday morning. More than 11,000 were without power in Mississippi. Another 5,000 or so were without power in Arkansas. ...
