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In the couple of days that followed Hurricane Laura, the city of Abbeville had power fully restored.
Nearly a week after the storm, strains began to take a toll on the city’s electrical system. It is an issue that is causing some areas of the city to see outages.

LAFAYETTE — The University of Louisiana at Lafayette will report positive COVID-19 cases via a public dashboard that launched Wednesday.
The dashboard can be accessed here. It will be updated by 5 p.m. daily to reflect positive, documented cases confirmed the previous day. Cases reported between Friday and Sunday will be posted on the following Monday.
UL Lafayette created the dashboard “in the interest of transparency and accuracy,” said Dr. Jaimie Hebert, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.

Abbeville General is in the process of evacuating five inpatients due to power disruptions from the City of Abbeville and in-house emergency generator failure.
The hospital has been operating on generator power to help take pressure off the city’s electrical system, which is having issues after Hurricane Laura.
The hospital’s generator became non-functional Wednesday morning with a manifold leak, and there is no additional back-up.
According to a spokesperson for Abbeville General, the back-up generators have been secured and are en route to the hospital.