Hurricane Ada made landfall a week nearly 500,000 users in Louisiana, USA, still without power

Source: Xinhua Net

HOUSTON, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- As of the afternoon of the 6th local time, data PowerOutage.us the US power tracking website showed that since the fourth-class Hurricane Ada made landfall in the southern louisiana state on the 29th of last month, nearly 500,000 homes and businesses were still in a state of power outage.

For a week, southern Louisiana has been hot and hot, with power outages overlapping with hot weather, and a large number of residents have suffered. The state health department said on the 5th that in New Orleans, the largest city in the state, a 74-year-old man died of heat stroke, which increased the number of deaths caused by "Ida" in the state to at least 13. Previously, a nursing home in the state evacuated elderly people to a warehouse before the hurricane struck, and at least 5 elderly people died due to poor environment.

Major Louisiana power providers expect much of New Orleans to resume power by the 8th at the latest, but some of the hardest-hit areas may not be able to restore power until the end of September.

American Public Radio reported on the 6th that after the hurricane struck, parts of New Orleans not only had a power outage, but also had no safe drinking water, and the Internet and mobile phone networks were not smooth. Many gas stations have no oil to sell, and the stations that can refuel are often queued up. In some small towns along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast, roads washed off by flooding remain impassable, and submerged homes await reconstruction.

According to USA Today reported on the 6th, "Ada" damaged more than 22,000 poles, 26,000 wires and 5,261 transformers in Louisiana.

As of the 6th, "Ada" has caused at least 17 deaths in southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and at least 50 deaths in northeastern states. Aida thus became the hurricane with the highest number of deaths in the United States in the past four years.