Entergy: Ida hit system harder than Katrina, Ike, Delta, Zeta combined

Entergy says Hurricane Ida knocked down more of its utility poles than Katrina, Ike, Delta and Zeta combined.

With the completion of its damage estimate, Entergy said Ida took out 30,679 poles, 36,469 spans of wire and 5,959 transformers.

Ida made landfall at midday Aug. 29 at Port Fourchon.

The company has restored power to 395,000 of 900,000 Entergy New Orleans and Entergy Louisiana customers who lost power at the peak of the storm.

The company says it will continue to work around the clock.

Statewide, 600,000 customers of all utilities remain without power Sunday, according to the poweroutage.us website.

In Assumption Parish, about 5,500 of 10,000 customers don't have power.

Virtually all of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes lack electricity.

Cleco's biggest chores this week have been in St. Tammany and Washington parishes. More than 18,000 of 98,000 St. Tammany customers are blacked out Sunday. About 400 of 800 Washington customers still don't have power.