Hurricane Ida flooded homes across Louisiana and destroyed the region’s power grid. Now those communities face another challenge: the potential of weeks without power in the heat. AP photos document the damage, and the people left in the storm’s wake.
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Ida ravaged the region’s power grid, leaving the entire city of New Orleans and hundreds of thousands of other Louisiana residents in the dark with no clear timeline on when power would return. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said 25,000 utility workers were in the state to help restore electricity, with more on the way. Officials say it could be weeks before electricity is restored in some spots. At least four deaths were blamed on the storm.
Photos show Jeremy Hodges holding on to a lamp at his family’s destroyed storage unit in Houma, Louisiana. Sharon Orlando tries to hold back tears as she surveys the damage to her home in Destrehan, Louisiana. Cyclists pedal through knee-deep water in New Orleans while others wait in line for groceries at stores without power.
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