Louisiana Residents Face Gas Shortages After Hurricane Ida

Hundreds of thousands of Louisianans sweltered in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on Tuesday with no electricity, no tap water, precious little gasoline and no clear idea of when things might improve.

Long lines formed at the few gas stations that had fuel and generator power to pump it.

In Lafayette, Louisiana TV station KATC found cars and people filling gas tanks lined up at a station in Henderson, west of Baton Rouge.

“There’s nothing open all the way through Baton Rouge and we were lucky to find this,” said Warren Meline, who was driving from Metairie, in suburban New Orleans, to Texas.

Ashley Rueya and Taylor White were driving together from French Settlement, west of New Orleans, Rueya saying they had hoped it would be easier to find petrol “the further we got away from French Settlement”.

Instead, “it’s actually been worse”.

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