Power tower new orleans3/2/2024 Officials are estimating that it will take at least six weeks to restore power to Jefferson Parish, the county that lies along the west side of New Orleans, and includes the city’s main airport. documented 14 counties that had over 80% of their customers without power. EDT Monday, many of them in New Orleans, which suffered a city-wide power outage after a key transmission tower collapsed (see drone video of the collapsed tower and wires in the Mississippi River from Live Storms Media). Over 1.2 million customers were without power in Mississippi and Louisiana at 11 a.m. Truly remarkable time lapse video from our remote cam that was set up in Laplace, LA at Frenier Landing to capture the storm surge from hurricane #Ida /e7b19LXOmb- Mark Sudduth August 30, 2021 Nearby, the town of Lafitte was inundated with 10-12 feet of water, with reports of people trapped in their attics. South of New Orleans, a levee in Braithwaite, which was not part of the levee system that protected the greater New Orleans area, was overtopped, flooding hundreds of homes (see tweet below). Ida tracked just west of Lake Pontchartrain, bringing extreme rains and a dangerous storm surge to the west side of the lake that flooded the town of LaPlace, Louisiana (population 29,000). (Image credit: Mark Nissenbaum, Florida State University) The Port of South Louisiana, the largest bulk cargo port in the world, was in strong right front eyewall of category 3 Hurricane Ida at 8-9 p.m., when peak winds were estimated at 115-120 mph. ![]() The Waterford 3 Nuclear Generating Station, which is also located in this region, suffered minor damage to some of its non-nuclear buildings and is now on backup generators due to loss of electrical power from the grid. ![]() Backup diesel generators started as designed and are providing power to the plant, which is stable and secure.- EntergyNuclear August 30, 2021 An NOUE is the least serious of NRC emergency response classifications. Waterford 3 declared an Unusual Event at 6:12 p.m.
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