How New Orleans restaurants are reopening after Ida: few staff, early hours, slashed menus

A few days after Hurricane Ida knocked out electricity, Jessica and Alonzo Knox opened their Basin Street café Backatown Coffee Parlour to … Read more

About 278,000 without power 10 days after Hurricane Ida; more progress in urban areas

The number of homes and businesses still without power 10 days after Hurricane Ida chewed up the area's electricity infrastructure stood at about 278,000 on Wednesday morning, with more progress in the most urbanized areas of Orleans and Jefferson parishes. Read more

An island of Ida's making, south Plaquemines remains without running water nine days later

Like most of the 7,000 residents of lower Plaquemines Parish, Sandy Gilbert couldn't check on her home for more than a week after Hurricane Ida blew through southeast Louisiana. Extensive flooding along La. 23 rendered the west bank's main road impassable, and even driving atop the Mississippi River levee wasn't safe for days. Read more

There’s a big dead alligator sticking out of a pink dumpster on Perrier Street -- No lie

The tail of a rather large, dead alligator protruded from a pink Dumpster at the corner of Perrier and Upperline streets at 5 p.m. Tuesday. The torso of the creature was wrapped in a blue roofing tarp. Hundreds of shiny black flies were attracted by the stench the ripening reptile exuded. Scores of passersby were attracted by the enigma. Read more

219-unit Metairie Towers condo complex 'uninhabitable' for 1 year post-Ida; residents forced out

Residents of the Metairie Towers condominium complex hauled away suitcases, moving boxes and artwork on Tuesday after learning from management that the building would need to be vacated for roughly a year to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Ida. Read more

Lafitte sloshes through the mud nine days after Hurricane Ida slammed the coastal community

Lafitte residents and volunteers clean debris out of churches and houses as the National Guard secures the bridge across the bayou and utility workers restore power lines. Despite the destruction, good humor prevailed on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, nine days after Hurricane Ida. Residents focused on the positive. No one died, someone said with a shrug. All this can be fixed. Everyone in the town, which is built along Bayou Barataria, people waved. With a population of about 1,000 residents, the tow… Read more

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