All of New Orleans loses power after 'catastrophic transmission damage'

Orleans Parish was without power on Sunday after Entergy New Orleans suffered "catastrophic" transmission damage, the energy company said, as reported by Reuters.

Hurricane Ida, which made landfall as a fierce Category 4 storm, plowed through the Gulf of Mexico into Louisiana on Sunday, lashing the coast with 150 mile-per-hour winds, torrential downpours and pounding surf that plunged much of the shoreline under several feet of water. 

Orleans Parish lost power shortly after 7 p.m. on Sunday (0000 GMT on Monday), leaving more than 673,000 customers without power, according to Entergy's outage website.