Ben Myers
泰晤士报|新奥尔良倡导者
（MCT）
Sep. 5—Six days after Hurricane Ida severed New Orleans from the electric grid, a smattering of residents on Saturday took the city up on its offer for bus transportation to state-run shelters, while officials began offering limited bed space for those with medical needs at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
大约有600人出现在会议中心，供镇上乘车中心，许多人乘坐从整个城市的十几个地点出发的地区运输管理局公交车。寻求庇护的人在签署了身份腕带的市政工作人员注册的背包和行李袋。全天的国家合同的巴士乘坐40至50名乘客出发，注定要在都会区以外的避难所。
截至周六晚上，Entergy已将电力恢复到该市约32％的城市，公用事业官员表示，“绝大多数”应该在9月8日在线。显然，在每天三位数的热量指数中，一些老年人和脆弱的人正在遭受痛苦。
该市紧急准备总监柯林·阿诺德（Collin Arnold）说：“他们中的一些人将在周末到下周的周末都很难转移到下周。
In the storm’s immediate aftermath, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she did not believe a post-storm evacuation would be necessary, but on Thursday, after days of sweltering heat, she announced that the city was working with state and federal agencies to set up transportation to shelters across the state.
这项工作始于周五的某些高级住房建筑群的直接接送，官员们意识到居民需要帮助。周六，RTA巴士开始将人们从城市社区指定的接送点运送到会议中心的过程中进行了更广泛的努力。
After arriving at the Convention Center, shelter seekers registered with city staff and waited their turn to board a coach bus. They were not told of their destination until after boarding.
“那将是有帮助的，所以我可以让我的人们知道。” 40岁的考特尼·达文波特（Courtney Davenport）在等待登机时说道。
Arnold said he understood how the uncertainty could induce anxiety, but he said drivers receive their final instructions from state officials with the Department of Children and Family Services after the last person boards and there is a concrete head count. Only then can dispatchers match the bus with a shelter with guaranteed space.
“The biggest question we get, particularly from the person that is leaving, is ‘Where am I going?’ Unfortunately it’s not a simple answer. We just don’t know,” Arnold said. “What we don’t want is showing up somewhere that’s full, and a five to six hour trip becomes potentially a significantly longer trip. We want people to get there, immediately get off the bus and be welcomed.”
公共汽车出发时间从上午8点到下午4点，每天有2300人的空间；565在关闭时间的几分钟内注册。自从周一开始提供乘车以来，在杰斐逊教区（Jefferson Parish）开始提供乘车以来，在第一天就从新奥尔良寻求乘车的人数大约等于那些离开杰斐逊教区的人的数量。
Arnold said the timing of the decision to offer bus access was based on a number of factors, including the completion of Entergy’s damage assessments.
阿诺德说：“我们必须决定，并提出一个触发点，我们可以确保我们将在没有权力的情况下再过几天，那是星期四。”
Since the day after Ida struck, Entergy has consistently said it would take at least a week — if not far longer — to get power back to the bulk of the city’s residents and businesses.
根据州官员的说法，周六，全州有3246人在全州有3246人，但除了大开车外，一般人口庇护所，红十字会正在经营亚历山大和巴吞鲁日，避难所的位置尚不清楚。
“Where and which shelters are open is fluid,” said Department of Children and Family services spokesperson Sean Ellis, when asked for their locations.
Apart from the makeshift bus depot, the Convention Center is also the venue for the city’s limited-capacity emergency shelter for people with special medical needs. As of Saturday there were beds for 50 people needing support along with their caregivers. The city’s medical director, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, said she expects the capacity to quadruple soon.
Avegno说，有近3500人签署了特殊需求注册表，会议中心庇护所也将容纳杰斐逊教区居民。
Avegno说：“我们对最脆弱的人，谁是合适的人有很好的认识，因此我们一直在对他们进行钻探。”
现年65岁的威廉·刘易斯（William Lewis）希望在周六通过RTA公共汽车从南方街的罗森瓦尔德中心（Rosenwald Center）离开。但是他在等待公共汽车出发时遭受了医疗紧急情况，并被救护车带走。
Before the emergency, Lewis, who is blind, said he had resorted to multiple overnight stays at University Medical Center after suffering heat-induced seizures at his Chef Menteur Highway apartment.
Lewis returned home after his first hospital stay on Sept. 1, he said, but he went back when the seizures started up again. Hospital staff sent Lewis to Rosenwald Center in a taxi on Saturday morning, he said.
“They said you are already on the list for special needs, but they said ain’t nobody going out of town,” Lewis said. “I went to the hospital, and they were talking about all they could do is keep me overnight.”
Staff writers Faimon Roberts and Jeff Adelson contributed to this report
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