Re-Entry Deadline?: As mentioned last night, Nagin is hopeful about people going back into the high and dry areas of New Orleans starting Monday. A curfew will be imposed.
- “… the return of residents could create some confusion and perhaps complicate the sprawling relief effort to restore power and drinkable water to the city’s east bank. He plans to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew.”
- Streets fully drained in Lower Ninth Ward
- Entergy reports that 264,000 consumers still have no power, “down from a record 1.1 million immediately after the storm.” They estimate that “power would be fully restored to the CBD within two weeks, and to Uptown and the French Quarter within a month.”
- “… the pumping station that drains Interstate 10 as it dips below the Southern Railroad overpass near the Jefferson Parish line also is working again and … should be usable in a few days”
- Nagin retracted his earlier use of the word “bankrupt” to describe New Orleans’ financial state. Instead, “the city coffers have been drained,” which means we’re bankrupt, but it’s impolite to say so.
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Educating Young Evacuees: A Wall Street Journal article on the troubles faced by school-age evacuees.
[The Dept. Of Education] doesn’t know how many children have re-enrolled in public schools, how many are being educated separately and how many are awaiting placement. Since it’s unclear how long the children will be displaced … the secretary won’t be granting waivers ‘in perpetuity.’
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Clean Up Jobs & Immunization: If you’re looking for a job cleaning up New Orleans, here is a site to get started.
The CDC recommends this immunization schedule for adults heading back into New Orleans, including health-care workers. If nothing else, get a tetanus shot.
You’re supposed to get a tetanus shot every 10 years. (A rather nasty little lesson I learned at my last physical.) Most people received a shot when they went to college, so people who are around 27-28 probably need a booster.