Over 2 million homes and businesses in five states were without power Thursday after Hurricane Zeta came ashore in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm.
Oct.29 (UPI) — Over 2 million homes and businesses in five states were without power Thursday after Hurricane Zeta came ashore in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm. More than 2 million power customers in Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Oklahoma didn’t have electricity, according to Poweroutage.us’ afternoon update. Georgia had the most customers in the dark with 632,542 outages. Louisiana had over 450,000; Alabama and North Carolina each over 350,000; and Oklahoma over 290,000. New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street was dark on Thursday, along with almost 80% of the city. Power utility Entergy said about 10% of New Orleans customers may have to wait as long as 10 days before electricity is restored. Hundreds of uprooted trees were blamed for the majority of the outages as officials reported debris scattered across major thoroughfares.
