{"id":59170,"date":"2021-08-31T07:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59170"},"modified":"2021-08-31T07:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:09:25","slug":"hurricane-ida-exposes-grid-weaknesses-as-2000-miles-of-high-voltage-lines-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59170","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses As 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Damaged\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses As 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Damaged\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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More than a million customers across Louisiana are without power on Tuesday morning. Some reports indicate it could take weeks for the lights to come back on as thousands of miles of transmission lines were damaged after Hurricane Ida rolled through on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Category 4 hurricane raises fresh questions about how well New Orleans and other coastal areas across Lousiana are prepared for natural disasters. As of 0630 ET,\u00a0PowerOutage.US<\/a>\u00a0reports a little more than one million customers are without power across the state’s coastal plain.<\/p>\n

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Energy provider Entergy Corp has been surveying the damage since Monday and has found 207 transmission lines spanning more than 2,000 miles have been knocked out by the storm, according to\u00a0WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rod West, Entergy’s group president of utility operations, said drones, helicopters, and land-based vehicles are surveying the damage and estimate it could take at least three weeks to restore power.<\/p>\n