W2R
Moderator Emeritus
There were 50,000 outages in all of Louisiana this morning, but most of them are outside New Orleans, down in the swamps by the Gulf of Mexico or on Grand Isle.
What we are hearing on local TV news is that almost all of the outages up here in the New Orleans area have been addressed already. Our local electric company is pretty terrific about keeping the electricity up and running.
https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_b1843354-a561-11e9-b80b-aba98ebfe2d3.html
I live a mile outside New Orleans in Jefferson Parish (=County), which has a population of about 439,000 people. Right now there are about 10,000 outages in Jefferson Parish, 2,000 of those being way down at Grand Isle. No big deal. You can't even get to Grand Isle right now, and it was mostly evacuated yesterday.
So far this is really not the Big Storm that the national news media might lead one to think. Believe me, UncleMick and I both know about Big Storms and like I said, so far this ain't it. Maybe later.