Full recovery of Entergy grid weeks away

[phantom power]

I was listening to NPR, and they interviewed a sherrif(?) from New Orleans, who was saying that although the residential/structure damage from Gustav was minimal, the infrastructure damage was going to take weeks to fix, and he rated the area "unlivable" for that reason.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Entergy Corp officials were able to restore two critical transmission lines overnight, allowing the state's largest utility to reconnect New Orleans to the statewide power grid, officials said on Wednesday.

The return of two 230-kilovolt lines knocked out by Hurricane Gustav will allow more power to be restored to homes and businesses in New Orleans and communities along the Mississippi River, full recovery of the state's largest utility grid is weeks away, Randy Helmick, Entergy's vice president of transmission and official "storm boss" told reporters on a call Wednesday.

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