| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor
FINAL JOURNEY: Retired police officer Michael Myers rode out Hurricane Ida's winds in a New Orleans hotel room with his parents, Bessie and Manuel. Two days later, they decided to go see how their home in Gentilly had fared. They never made it. About two miles away from their home, their car struck a curb and hit a tree, killing the father, mother and son.
RED FLAG: The investment rating agency Moody’s has changed its outlook for Entergy Corp. and the utility's two Louisiana subsidiaries to "negative" after the company estimated the repairs needed after Hurricane Ida would be more expensive than previously anticipated. Moody's also expressed concern about an increasingly contentious political environment that has seen the New Orleans City Council sparring with the utility over the extended post-Ida power outages.
FUTILITY FACTOR: Dave Ecklar’s attempt to protest New Orleans' pathetic sanitation situation, by dumping a truckload of garbage at City Hall, was pretty much a complete failure. He hadn’t even finished unloading the reeking, leaking heap of garbage bags from his rental truck when the cops arrived. He was cuffed and issued a summons for illegal dumping. Then he was offered a choice: Pick up the awful mess or get hauled off to the hoosegow.
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