“We’ve just been living day by day.”
Jay Breaux wipes sweat from his eye after going through his hurricane destroyed home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on Sept. 4, 2021, in Dulac, La. | John Locher/AP PhotoHOUMA, La. — The coronavirus pandemic claimed Kendall Duthu’s job as a cook at a jambalaya restaurant. Then Hurricane Ida claimed his house.
On Saturday, Duthu collected a container of red beans and rice from volunteers in nearby Houma who handed out ice, water and meals to shell-shocked storm survivors. He stopped to eat inside his Infiniti, its windshield shattered.Both Dulac and Houma are in Terrebonne Parish, among the hardest-hit areas of Louisiana battered to an unprecedented degree by Hurricane Ida.
By Saturday morning, power was restored to about 282,000 customers from the peak of 902,000 who lost power after Ida.
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