While nearly 1M customers in Louisiana are still without power and Ida's death toll rises to 6, a glimmer of hope emerges as one of the region's main utilities restored service for some in parts of New Orleans.
, according to Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Calvin Robertson. Authorities have not identified the two people who died.in Louisiana were linked to the storm: a 60-year-old man who died in Ascension Parish when a tree fell on his home and a man who drowned after driving through a flooded road, authorities said.after being attacked by an alligator on Monday in an area that flooded during Ida, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office said.
While New Orleans was largely spared the catastrophic flooding that officials had feared, several communities along the Louisiana coast remained cut off by floodwaters and blocked roadways, complicating rescue efforts as crews scramble to clear debris and begin the weekslong task of restoring the power grid.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards previously warned that the death toll from Ida could go up"considerably." On Tuesday, the governor pleaded with residents who evacuated ahead of
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