Why are people surprised by that? More than 700,000 people still in the dark a week after Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana, governor says
I guess people are surprised because they don't understand what "Major Hurricane" means. See this link for view of Ida's landfall.
The total number of customers without power as of noon Saturday was 718,559, which includes homes and businesses that equate "a lot more" people, Edwards said at a news conference in Livingston Parish. That's down from a peak of 1.1 million customers without power after the Category 4 hurricane made landfall last Sunday
Edwards said the electrical infrastructure needs reinforcement, but there are limitations.
People always say "You should bury the cables underground." But those people have apparently never looked at map of southern Louisiana. There is more water than ground, and while you can run electrical cables through water, it isn't quite as easy as when you buried a cable to run electricity to your garden shed.
The lack of power is so unbearable that New Orleans on Saturday began sending electricity-deprived people to powered shelters in northern Louisiana and Texas. The new shuttle program picks up people from the city convention center by charter bus.
There have been heat advisories in Louisiana; the first one hit the day after the rains stopped. Can you imagine living in southern Louisiana without air-conditioning? I can imagine it, which is why I live in the Midwest, with AC.
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