The big picture: Nearly 1 million people in Louisiana lost electricity as Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm last week.
Power has been restored for approximately 225,000 customers in the five days since the storm, per the company’s press release.
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More than 25,000 workers from 40 states have been deployed to assess damage from Ida — which includes approximately 14,000 damaged poles, more than 2,200 broken transformers and more than 150 destroyed transmission structures.
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