Jindal prods utilities to speed recovery [View All]

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Source: The Town Talk

4 hours ago

BATON ROUGE -- Restoring electricity is probably the most important thing that would help the state recover from Hurricane Gustav, says Gov. Bobby Jindal.

About 1.5 million people are without electricity, Jindal said, and power companies estimated that about half would be restored within 10 days but the others could take up to six weeks. "Restoring power would move our recovery forward more than anything else we could do," Jindal said. "The lack of power for our communities is a huge obstacle for people to get back to their lives."

After returning from reviewing damage in St. Mary and Terrebonne parishes and Grand Isle with federal Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, Jindal said "You can read about damage of the storm but you have to go see it for yourself" to realize how devastating it was.





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The MSM would make you believe all is goin' great down here...it's not by a long shot. There is major flooding still going on all over the state as well.