More than 2.9 million people were without power in the wake of Zeta from Louisiana through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
One Twitter user wrote: "Something like 80% of New Orleans is without power and many won't have lines repaired for 3-5 days. For context if you're not seeing this on the news, Zeta is the strongest hurricane in recorded history to have its eye directly pass over New Orleans."
2.9 million has dropped to over 411,00 customers in the region as of Sunday morning, according to power outage tracking website power outage.us. Several voting locations in the region were hit, with full power restoration still not expected for days.
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Louisiana is still the most damaged from Zeta, with over 129,000 outages still reported statewide, but utility crews were working quickly to restore power.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards personally thanked the "first responders, electrical workers and partners at every level of government who are working to help our people recover." He gave a further update on Friday afternoon that there were still "hundreds" of people without power.
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Circumstances include shifting polls to other, temporary locations or combining polling places in one large venue.
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If changes prove crucial, Edwards said, “I expect that we’ll be moving in that direction sooner rather than later because the hard part here is you have to make the decision early enough to communicate to voters so that they’re not deprived of the opportunity to cast that vote on Tuesday.”
Entergy Louisiana said some customers will begin to see their power come back through the weekend but it could take seven to 10 days for other neighbors. The company said teams have found damage to 2,700 poles, over 570 transformers and nearly 1,800 spans of wire.
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Utility officials told the focus was on significant customers first.
“Hospitals, police and fire stations, water, sewer, those kinds of things and then we’ll go to how quickly we can get as many customers as possible during that process,” said Entergy Louisiana President and CEO Phillip May.
There should be no weather-related issues with voting this year.
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