This afternoon, the power went out in a large swath of Lafayette Park. It is dark at Lafayette Towers, 1300, Jean Rivard, and probably the other two-story development on the corner of Orleans, south of Lafayette.

The shopping plaza on Lafayette is in the dark as well, including Lafayette Foods. I'm sure that it can be catastrophic for a store to loose power, what with potential loss of meats, etc.

Many seniors are either stuck on the upper floors of the high-rises - in stifling heat, or hunkered down on the first floors, unable to get upstairs.

Also, Harbortown, the nearby CVS, and traffic lights lost power as well, on Jefferson.