About 95,500 homes and businesses in New Orleans were still without power on Friday and efforts are underway to quantify and clean up the damage brought by Hurricane Zeta when it rushed through the city on Wednesday night, officials said at a press conference on Friday.
The press conference came as the city is moving firmly into the recovery phase from Zeta, which struck southeast Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, and as officials are beginning to focus their case for FEMA assistance.
To that end, Mayor LaToya Cantrell has begun making her case to FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor, who visited with city officials on Friday. She and other officials also urged residents to register any damage to their homes or property at damage.la.gov so that it can be included in an assessment that could play a role in what kind of assistance the city will receive.
“We have to paint a picture” to show the federal government and FEMA how much assistance we are eligible for, city Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness director Collin Arnold said.
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City officials do not yet have a full estimate of the damage caused by Zeta in New Orleans, though there were some indications of the storm's impacts. Six homes were rendered uninhabitable by storm damage and about 30% of the city's schools sustained at least minor damage, officials said.
Work on restoring power is continuing. Roughly 80,000 Entergy customers in the city have already had power restored, Arnold said.
The power company was working on wrapping up the high-priority sites early Friday and would soon begin turning their attention to more residential areas, Arnold said. As a result, he said he hoped many would have power restored in the near future.
Entergy officials have said they expect to restore power to most customers this weekend.
Among the locations without power are 54 of the city’s 120 polling stations, Arnold said. Those sites will be prioritized ahead of Tuesday’s election, he said.
“I’m very confident that we will make sure that voters will be able to express themselves come Tuesday,” Cantrell said. “The hope is that power will be restored in the current polling sites even if generators are needed to do that.”
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Any announcement about sites that will be moved due to outages will come about 48 hours before Election Day, to accommodate the schedule needed to determine where to set up voting machines, Cantrell said.
National Guard troops are in the city both assisting the New Orleans Police Department and helping with debris cleanup, Cantrell said. The 12 two-person crews assisting NOPD are being stationed at intersections that may be dangerous because of traffic lights that are out and in front of some businesses to act as a deterrent against anyone that might be tempted to take advantage of the disaster, Cantrell said.
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However, those troops will not have the ability to make arrests or use force, Cantrell said.
New Orleans residents and businesses should put any debris on the curb by the end of the Sunday, with pickups starting Monday morning. Those cleanups will take all debris from sidewalks and neutral grounds, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer of Infrastructure Ramsey Green said.
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It may take several days for crews to clear debris from the entire city, Green said. Those teams will be working in a methodical pattern and Green said it would not speed up the process to call 3-1-1 and request a pickup at a specific location.
Green also warned against illegal dumping, noting that the city has cameras set up at several spots where that has been a frequent problem to prosecute offenders.
City crews are also working on more than 580 reports of downed trees, Green said. And other teams are working to put up stop signs at intersections without working lights, which Green reminded motorists should be treated as a four-way stop.
Cantrell also announced that the move into "Phase 3.3" of the city's coronavirus reopening plan would be delayed by Zeta. The next step in easing restrictions, which is expected to include allowing indoor seating at bars, was originally expected on Saturday.
However, Cantrell cast doubt that the city would keep to that timeframe earlier in the week, suggesting that it might be delayed until after Halloween - a holiday that tends to bring large crowds to bars. On Friday, Cantrell said Zeta had caused its own reasons for delaying the next step, saying the closure of test sites before and during the storm made it difficult to gauge how the city's case numbers were faring.
Cantrell said she expected to discuss the next steps in the coronavirus recovery further next week.
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