southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama without power, and the powerful storm and has already slashed oil production in the region. and surrounding states as the possible Category 4 hurricane -- the second strongest level of storm -- touches down in the Gulf Coast region on Sunday.
In New Orleans, a city of about 400,000 people, local officials said residents should be prepared for prolonged power outages. Entergy Louisiana, which provides gas and power to over 1.1 million customers, including 94,000 in Baton Rouge, said on Saturday that customers in the direct path of a storm as intense as Ida could experience outages for more than three weeks. 90% of customers will be restored sooner, the utility said.
Mississippi Power is also urging residents to prepare for outages. It said Saturday that their storm team is assembled and ready to respond to the impact of Hurricane Ida."We are preparing for the worst," Mississippi Power's north division manager Michael Harvey told
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