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Over 500,000 people without power due to Hurricane Ida -Entergy Louisiana website

Published 08/29/2021, 07:05 PM
Updated 08/29/2021, 07:11 PM
© Reuters. Women walk in the rain as Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. August 29, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello
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(Reuters) - More than 500,000 people were without power in Louisiana because of Hurricane Ida, Entergy (NYSE:ETR) Louisiana's website showed on Sunday.

© Reuters. Women walk in the rain as Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. August 29, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello

The energy company's outage map showed the number of affected customers at 541,606 as of 6:50 p.m. EDT (2250 GMT) on Sunday.

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, forcing those who did not flee to brace themselves for the toughest test yet of the billions of dollars spent on levee upgrades following Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago.

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