Power outage

In the effort to provide the latest facts about New Orleans, please see the following statements by Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans and Dallas:

[E]lectricity has returned to almost 75 per cent of the city [of New Orleans].” The Jamaica Observer, November 20, 2005.

60 percent of New Orleans has electricity. The Associated Press, November 27, 2005.

What happened in the last week that caused the city to lose 15% of its electrical power?

Power-less in New Orleans, I remain,

C.B.