Under increasing pressure from frustrated regulators and their constituents, Entergy, the state’s largest utility, released estimated restoration times for customers affected by Hurricane Ida.
Congressman Garret Graves is urging the federal government to use some of its strategic petroleum reserve and to suspend certain regulations on refiners in hopes of relieving fuel shortages in Louisiana and other areas affected by Hurricane Ida.
More than 72% of the Capital Region is still without power three days after Hurricane Ida made landfall, including 54% of the some 216,000 customers in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Drivers in Louisiana and Mississippi searching for gas stations that still have fuel can download the GasBuddy app to find crowdsourced outage information.