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		</div><p>Full restoration of electricity to some of the hardest-hit areas of Louisiana battered by Hurricane Ida could take until the end of the month, the head of Entergy Louisiana has warned.</p>
<p>At least 16 deaths were blamed on the storm in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.</p>
<p>Ida damaged or destroyed more than 22,000 power poles, more than hurricanes Katrina, Zeta and Delta combined – an impact Entergy president Phillip May called “staggering”.</p>
<p>More than 5,200 transformers failed and nearly 26,000 spans of wire — the stretch of transmission wires between poles — were down.</p>
<p>Mr May said: “The level of devastation makes it quite difficult or near impossible to get in and fully assess some places.”</p>
<p>The company is estimating full power restoration by September 29 or even longer for some customers.</p>
<p>Entergy New Orleans president Deanna Rodriguez said about a quarter of New Orleans residents have power back, including all the city’s hospitals, and the city’s 27 substations are ready to serve customers.</p>
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<p>One of the parishes facing long delays for power restoration is Terrebonne, where volunteers in the parish seat of Houma handed out ice, water and meals to shell-shocked storm survivors on Saturday. Houma is roughly 55 miles (90 kilometres) southwest of New Orleans.</p>
<p>Some parishes outside New Orleans were battered for hours by winds of 100 mph (160 kph) or more.</p>
<p>By Saturday morning, 97% of damage assessment was complete and power restored to about 282,000 customers from the peak of 902,000 blacked out after Ida.</p>
<p>The lower Mississippi River reopened to all vessel traffic in New Orleans and ports throughout southeastern Louisiana after power lines from a downed transmission tower were removed, the Coast Guard said.</p>
<p>New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell said the city was offering transportation to any resident looking to leave the city and get to a public shelter.</p>
<p>By the end of Saturday, city agencies conducting wellness checks had evacuated hundreds of people out of eight senior living complexes where officials deemed conditions unfit for living.</p>
<p>The coroner’s office is investigating four post-storm deaths that occurred at three of those facilities.</p>
<p>As recovery efforts continued, state officials were monitoring a system of disturbed weather in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, which appeared set to move into the Central Gulf of Mexico closer to Louisiana.</p>
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<p>Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said the state is planning an exercise to assess its emergency response if needed.</p>
<p>Predictions so far do not show the system strengthening into a hurricane, but he said “even if it’s a tropical storm, we’re in no state to receive that much rainfall at this time”.</p>
<p>He said: “We can’t take the playbook we normally use because the people and assets are no longer where they would have been.</p>
<p>“How do you staff up shelters you need for the new storm and continue to test for Covid? My head’s getting painful just thinking about it.</p>
<p>“We will be as ready as we can be, but I’m praying we don’t have to deal with that.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Coast Guard crews were responding on Saturday to a sizeable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the storm.</p>
<p>The ongoing spill appears to be coming from an underwater source at an offshore drilling lease about two miles (three kilometres) south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana.</p>
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