In the wind-damaged city of Kenner near New Orleans, the mayor was blunt Saturday when asked what his city needed most.
“Power,” Mayor Ben Zahn told CNN. “We suffered a lot. … When you don’t have power, you need ice. So we have been trying to give as much ice out as we can, because people need to keep things as cold as possible.”
Around 700,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana were without power as of early Thursday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.US.
And high temperatures will be in the high 80s or low 90s in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi on Saturday, with the heat index — what the temperature feels like with humidity and other factors — generally in the mid-90s, the forecasters said.
Many gas stations are inoperable or don’t have fuel — and those that do have people waiting outside them for hours.
Outside an uptown New Orleans gas station Saturday morning,…
