More than 400K without power nine days after Ida hits Louisiana

More than 400,000 people are still without power nine days after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana.

As of Tuesday afternoon, 412,759 people were without power, according to numbers from PowerOutage.US.

Ida made landfall on Aug. 29 and left more than 1 million people without power in Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed Tuesday that the death toll in the state is now at 15.

Entergy, one of the utilities that provides power in Louisiana and Mississippi, said Tuesday that it has restored power to 60 percent of its 948,000 customers in both states that lost power, or about 571,000 customers.

This includes 54 percent of its customers who lost power in Louisiana and all of its customers who lost power in Mississippi.

Entergy said that for some of the communities that were hit hardest by the storm, power should be restored no later than Sept. 29, though estimates are subject to change.

“Rest assured, we will not stop until the last light is back on in our communities,” Entergy said.

President Biden visited Louisiana last week to tour the damage caused by Ida.

The president on Tuesday is visiting New York and New Jersey, which were hit hard when the remnants of Ida hit the Atlantic Coast, killing at least 50 people in Eastern states, according to The Associated Press.