Hurricane Ida battered Louisiana as a fierce Category 4 storm Sunday, leaving whole towns flooded along the coast and New Orleans still entirely in the dark.
At least 993,340 customers remain without power in Louisiana, as of Tuesday night, according to poweroutage.us, as well as at least 28,979 in Mississippi.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said during a news conference Tuesday evening that the city will see "some level of transmission" of power as early as Wednesday evening.
"The expectation should not be ... that the entire city will be lit on tomorrow evening, but in stages," she said.
Cantrell said a curfew will go into effect at 8 p.m. local time and last until 6 a.m. Wednesday. Local and state police and the National Guard will patrol the streets, according to New Orleans Police Chief Shaun Ferguson.
The mayor called the curfew a "proactive" measure since there already have been arrests for looting.