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All righty. So first, the updates on Hurricane Ida. So it has apparently taken out all power

essentially in New Orleans. There are 14 lines into New Orleans from the power companies,

and 13 of them are apparently down, which means that for some three weeks, people are to be without air conditioning and without power, unless they have a generator, which is just insane. According to the New York Times, in a statement on Sunday night, Entergy, a power company with 2.9 million customers across the south, said that all eight transmission lines, the power of the New Orleans area, were out of service, and that it was not clear when power might be restored. More than 199,000 customers in Jefferson Parish, part of the greater

New Orleans region, or without electricity, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility

performance across the country. More than 193,000 customers were without power in Orleans County,

while about 11,000 were without power in Plaquemines Parish,

south of the city. Before the outage in New Orleans, Entergy said that based on historical restoration

times, people in the direct path of the storm could be without power for as long as three weeks,

which is a humanitarian disaster in its own right. The generators are not going to be sufficient,

obviously, for that amount of power.

The hurricane has at this point slowed in speed, both in terms of the wind speed, as well as the pace of movement over land. It's now down to about 60 miles an hour, as opposed to 150

when it first hit land. So hopefully it will continue to weaken. And the Biden administration is

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