New Orleans officials announced seven places around the city where people could get a meal and sit in air conditioning. The city was also using 70 transit buses as cooling sites and will have drive-thru food, water and ice distribution locations set up on Wednesday, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said. Cantrell ordered a nighttime curfew Tuesday, calling it an effort to prevent crime after Hurricane Ida devastated the power system and left the city in darkness. With water treatment plants overwhelmed by floodwaters or crippled by power outages, some places were also facing shortages of drinking water. “Our desperate need right now is tarps, gasoline for generators, food, water,” pastor Chad Ducote said.
