Ida Updates: Nuclear plant loses offsite electrical power
The Latest on Hurricane Ida:
The
On Sunday night, grid operators requested that the River Bend nuclear power plant in
The Grand Gulf nuclear plant in
Ida weakened to a tropical storm as it moved to
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HURRICANE IDA:
Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters, and utility repair crews rushed in, after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the
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“It seems like now with any kind of storm it doesn’t take anything to flood,” said Vincent, 65.
Ida left him frustrated and angry over the prospect of having to once again deal with a damaged home, insurance and contractors.
“My dreams are destroyed. I mean, at my age I’ve got to start all over,” Vincent said.
Elsewhere in
Dozens of people pulled pieces of chimneys, gutters and other parts of their homes to the curb to be hauled away.
“The damage can be replaced. A life can’t,” said Paz, 18.
Elsewhere,
The company said some of its facilities remained inaccessible Monday. A mobile tower was sent to the governor’s emergency preparedness office to help get their phones up and running again.
The president said Monday that state officials should contact the
“We’ll get you what you need if we can,” Biden said. “The people of
Also Monday, the
Based on data from offshore operator reports submitted as of late morning Monday, personnel have been evacuated from a total of 288 production platforms, 51.43 percent of the 560 manned platforms in the
Personnel have been evacuated from 11 rigs, equivalent to 100% of the 11 rigs of this type currently operating in the Gulf. Rigs can include several types of offshore drilling facilities.
A total of seven dynamically positioned rigs have moved off location out of the storm’s projected path, as a precaution.
It is estimated that approximately 94.6% of the current oil production in the
The
Production information included in these reports is based on the amount of oil and gas the operator expected to produce that day. The shut-in production figures therefore are estimates, which the agency compares to historical production.
The facilities will be inspected after the storm has passed.
Cantrell says additional details about the death would come from the coroner’s office, but those were not immediately forthcoming.
“This case remains under investigation,” coroner’s spokesman
A person also was killed outside
The name of either victim have yet to be released.
“This will not be tolerated,” Police Chief
The police chief added of a storm that has left widespread damage, “This is not the time to take opportunity of our vulnerable population right now, which we all are vulnerable at this point in time.”
The storm damaged power and water systems in many parts of
The emergency declaration by Health and Human Services Secretary
One example is a requirement that health care professionals be licensed in the state they provide care.
HHS has also staged an incident management team in
People in emotional distress in affected areas can call 1-800-985-5990 for counseling help, or text TalkWithUs to 66746.
With power likely to be out for weeks,
Ehab Meselhe, a professor in Tulane’s engineering school, planned to head out of town once he and his wife finished cleaning up the tree branches and limbs littering their yard. “I have another house in Lafayette,” he said. “Once power is back, we’ll come back.”
A few blocks away,
Sitting on a screened porch while listening to a battery-operated radio and feeding her one-year-old daughter,
The
“The best advice is to stay put where you are” if you evacuated, Stephens said. “People who have evacuated out of the state should stay where they are right now.”
With widespread
Stephens said
Officials were estimating Monday that it could be weeks for full restoration in some areas.
The state had more than 1,000 people conducting search and rescue operations, and many more local search and rescue operations were up and running as well.
Stephens said only one death has been confirmed from Ida, but she cautioned that based on the widespread destruction: “We’re going to have many more confirmed fatalities.”
The governor also tweeted that Ida “packed a very powerful punch” and “did everything that was advertised, unfortunately.”
He wrote that levies in hard-hit areas “performed extremely well” for the most part, but that much of the state remains without power, water systems were out and “we have tremendous damage to homes and businesses.”
As of Monday morning, there were more than 888,000 power outages in
More than 2,000 miles of transmission lines were out of service Monday, along with 216 substations, according to the power provider, Entergy.
Entergy said crews were assessing damage to help the company “get a better idea of what we’re dealing with.”
“It would be premature to speculate at this time when power will be restored given the extent of the damage,” the company said.
Entergy has more than 11,000 workers ready to restore service, and expects that number to increase to 20,000, it said. The company is booking hotel rooms and preparing to move mobile sleeping units to house the thousands of workers in areas hard-hit by the storm. ___
Nearly 300 maned oil platforms and drilling rigs were shut down and evacuated. At least nine oil refineries in the region have also been shuttered, representing 13% of the nation’s total refining capacity.
Several pipelines are also shut down as a precaution.
The service disruptions are not expected to immediately impact the availability of gasoline nationally, due to ample fuel reserves in the system, the department said.
The ports of
Authorities were also calculating just how much wind and rain Ida unleashed. Preliminary measurements on Monday showed a high of 15.7 inches of rain from Ida dropped in
A ship in the port at Port Fourchon measured 172 mph winds, while
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