NEW ORLEANS — City Hall and the Orleans Parish Civil Court were shut down Wednesday afternoon after losing power.
City officials posted about the power outage on social media around 1:30 p.m. An Entergy outage map did not show the outage, but the company did tweet that "crews are on site assessing the cause of the power outage."
The civil court will not reopen until Thursday, according to officials.
Early voting is still happening though, Mayor LaToya Cantrell tweeted shortly after losing power. The city said that voting is able to continue because the machines are connected to generator power.
Voters can also vote early at three other locations:
- Algiers Courthouse, 225 Morgan Street, Room 105
- Chef Menteur Voting Machine Warehouse Site, 8870 Chef Menteur Highway
- Lake Vista Community Center, 6500 Spanish Fort Blvd.
Meetings in the New Orleans City Council chambers are also postponed until the outage is over, Council President Helena Moreno tweeted.
A city council committee recently recommended Entergy be fined $1 million because of the utility company's reliability problems.
