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Homes are flooded successful the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, successful Lafitte, La. The upwind died down soon earlier dawn. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Louisiana communities battered by Ida faced a caller information arsenic they began the monolithic task of clearing debris and repairing harm from the storm: the possibility of weeks without powerfulness successful the stifling, late-summer heat.

Entergy said a unit of astatine slightest 20,000 volition instrumentality respective days to measure the harm successful New Orleans and southeast Louisiana caused by Hurricane Ida’s landfall connected Sunday.

As of Monday, astir 900,000 customers had nary power, and the New Orleans-based powerfulness institution estimated that based connected the damage, customers successful the nonstop way of the tempest look extended outages.

Energy and chemic companies passim the portion were surveying damage.

Exxon Mobil said its Baton Rouge Fuels Terminal successful Louisiana reopened operations Monday portion its Hoover level successful the Gulf of Mexico suffered nary tempest harm and crews are starting to resume mean operations.

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Colonial Pipeline said precocious Monday it expected to instrumentality Lines 1 and 2 — located betwixt Houston and Greensboro, North Carolina — to work successful the evening, pending palmy completion of each restart protocols.

Meanwhile, Philips 66's refinery successful Belle Chasse, Louisiana, remained unopen down arsenic of precocious Monday. The refinery took connected immoderate water, the institution said. Its Gulf Coast lubricants works successful adjacent Sulphur volition reopen Tuesday.

Oil prices fell 1.3% Tuesday to $68.32 per tube trading connected the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The Environmental Protection Agency granted exigency substance waivers for Louisiana and Mississippi done September 16. The determination suspends requirements to merchantability debased volatility gasoline which is required successful the summertime to bounds the enactment of ozone pollution.

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