https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/30/hurricane-ida-traps-louisianans-leaves-the-grid-a-shambles/

By REBECCA SANTANA, KEVIN McGILL and JANET McCONNAUGHEY

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A fearsome Hurricane Ida left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued Monday while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the sweltering, late-summer heat.