According to the Louisiana Public Service Commission less than one third of customers, just over 15,000 households, are still without power in Lafourche Parish.
Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson told WWL that things are starting to look up.
“Things are always getting better, and that is a good thing,” said Chaisson. “The weekend was good, we saw increased power restoration, and we’re only at about 32% of the parish now without power, which is a really good thing.”
Chaisson said with this recent progress he is confident that the boil water advisory could be lifted in many parts of South Lafourche sometime this week, and that Entergy will meet their September 29 restoration estimate.
Most of the outages are in the southern-most sections of the Parish, areas like Golden Meadow where the substation was wrecked by Ida. Because most customers are back online however the National Guard has scaled back to just two POD sites.
Despite the recent progress Chaisson warned there is still a lot of hard, dirty work left to do in many communities that were covered in tons of mud by Hurricane Ida.
“We are in there with actual vacuum trucks sucking this muck out of people’s ditches trying to get the drainage clean, and then we are going to work towards scrapping as much of this stuff out of their yards as we can to get them back to normal,” said Chaisson.
Chaisson said he's still hounding the feds for housing help in the Parish. HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge visited the state Friday. Chaisson said he was not invited to that meeting and Fudge only stayed in New Orleans, which is "sad."
