Via Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News

I
am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans warehouse district
last night: there was rejoicing (well, there would have been without
the curfew, but the few people I saw on the streets were excited) when
the power came back on for blocks on end. Kevin Tibbles was positively
jubilant on the live update edition of Nightly News that we fed to the
West Coast. The mini-mart, long ago cleaned out by looters, was
nonetheless bathed in light, including the empty, roped-off gas pumps.
The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than
30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than
an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire
area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It's
enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it... jump to
certain conclusions.