On Saturday, a planned outage in Westwego left more than 300 residents without power from 8 a.m. until the late afternoon. Among those affected was 78-year-old Gladys Graham, who had to cancel her birthday plans due to the outage.
“A lot of friends and kin people coming in, and I planned to have a nice dinner for them, you know, but I had to cancel,” Graham said. “I almost cried.”
As a diabetic, Graham said the heat makes managing her health condition more challenging…