Power has been restored to thousands of New Orleans residents Tuesday night following a large outage a day before Hurricane Francine's forecasted landfall. Entergy's outage map showed a large area of New Orleans without power as of 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, including parts of Bywater, Marigny and the Seventh Ward.

A status update of what’s open, what’s closed, and how neighborhood restaurants are navigating power outages as of Friday, September 13

Hurricane Francine came ashore in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, pounding New Orleans with heavy rains and gusty winds while threatening the wider Gulf Coast with a potentially deadly storm surge that led to evacuation orders for thousands of people.

The storm became a hurricane Tuesday night; its maximum sustained winds are now topping 90 mph as it heads toward the Louisiana coast.

New Orleans was shaped by flooding and has long struggled to keep homes dry and the water out. Residents were cautioned to conserve water to reduce stress on the sewer system, alt

Storm surge begins to flood the docks of Campo’s Marina as Hurricane Francine was intensifying before its expected landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast, in Shell Beach, Louisiana, U.S. September 11, 2024.

The National Hurricane Center warned that parts of Louisiana could still face life-threatening storm surges, as heavy rains spread across southern Mississippi and Alabama.

Thousands of residents are without power after Hurricane Francine made landfall in Terrebonne Parish as a Category 2 storm.