* At least one person is dead - a 60 year-old man who died when a tree fell on his home - but Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards warned Monday that he expects the total dead to 'go up considerably'
* President Joe Biden agreed during a conference call with governors from affected states Monday, and told Bel Edwards to 'holler' for assistance
* More than 1 million homes were without power through Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday, with 144,000 in the Big Easy alone reporting power failures. The outage could last for three weeks
* Among buildings destroyed was the Karofsky Tailor Shop, which jazz legend Louis Armstrong once lived above
* Energy officials said they were working to restore power in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida but warned 'it will likely take days to determine the extent of damage to our power grid'
* AT&T reported that 40 per cent of its network was down across Louisiana, sparking further misery for people trying to work from home
* Some locals in the town of Lafitte - which has been destroyed by floodwaters - are currently trapped in their attics, with local mayor Cynthia Lee Sheng warning: 'There's alligators out there'
* The Category Four hurricane flooded much of Jefferson Parish, overpowering levee flood defenses which were strengthened after Hurricane Katrina hit the area on the same date 16 years ago
* The only power coming into many homes was from generators, sparking fears people could poison themselves with carbon monoxide
* Meanwhile the storm was weakened to a tropical storm as it passed over Mississippi on Monday. Flood warnings are in place for Mississippi, with Tennessee, and Kentucky
* Ida will make its way north east through the week, and will weaken further by the time it reaches New England on Thursday
* But locals are worried about the prospect of another three inches of rain just a week after soils were saturated by Tropical Storm Henri
New Orleans faces three weeks with no electricity in the wake of Hurricane Ida, after the extreme weather event downed more than 2,000 miles of energy lines across Louisiana.
Entergy Louisiana officials said on Monday it may take days for utility crews to determine the extent of the damage to New Orleans' power grid and even longer to restore power to the area, with Bloomberg reporting that repairs could take until late September to complete.
'We have a lot of rebuilding ahead of us,' the company wrote on Twitter. 'We'll be better prepared to give restoration estimates once assessments are done.'
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Update #1: Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid (AP)
Update #2: New Orleans Officials Are Fighting Looters as the City Reels in Hurricane Aftermath (FN)
WNU Editor: Three weeks with no power!!!! This is why everyone should be a prepper.
