Also: the dead alligator and the pink dumpster
| By Bob Warren Trying to reopen: Across the region, restaurants have been a beacon of hope after Hurricane Ida – handing out food and becoming neighborhood gathering spots. Now, as electricity returns, many are trying to get reopened. It can be a slow, frustrating process, Ian McNulty reports. Getting lit: Speaking of electricity, the latest from Entergy this morning is that 278,000 customers across the region are still without it, 10 days after Ida blew through. Beware of scammers: Did you get a lot of damage? If you’re lining up contractors, here’s some tips to avoid being scammed. Ida's island: Lower Plaquemines Parish was one of those areas that took a big punch. Reporter Halle Parker and photographer Chris Granger spent some time there. Looking for lodging: A well-known building on Metairie Road will have to be shut down for repairs after Ida. The Metairie Towers condo complex took it on the chin and could be uninhabitable for a year. A dead gator, a pink dumpster: Finally, stop me if you've heard this, but there's a dead alligator sticking out of the pink Dumpster. Which of course would attract our Doug MacCash like flies on a dead, well, you get it. Thanks for taking a break with the Lunch Line today. Stay safe. BW |
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| A few days after Hurricane Ida knocked out electricity, Jessica and Alonzo Knox opened their Basin Street café Backatown Coffee Parlour to … Read more |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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