Hurricane Ike swirled west Friday, hitting western Louisiana and eastern Texas with a storm surge that breached levees and caused widespread flooding in Terrebonne Parish and St. Mary Parish and in communities outside the levee system in the New Orleans region.

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-- About 828,982 of Entergy's customers in Louisiana were without power at some point. As of 5:30 pm Tuesday, power had been restored to about 680,000, or 82 percent of those who had lost electricity.

The personal economic toll from the evacuation for Hurricane Gustav emerged in full force Tuesday as thousands of southeast Louisiana residents lined up for public and private relief, saying their treks to safety had pushed them to the financial brink.

Here is a list of scheduled school reopenings in the New Orleans area. The list will be updated as new information is received.

In the week since Hurricane Gustav struck, local utilities have restored power to all but about 5 percent of the 495,103 electricity customers in the New Orleans metropolitan area.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard's administration has brought in two more debris haulers to clear the curbs after Hurricane Gustav, officials said Monday.

Public schools opening Tuesday or later
• Henry Ford Middle, Avondale is opening Tuesday
• Jefferson Elementary is opening Tuesday
• Norbert Rillieux Elementary, Waggaman is opening Tuesday
• Catherine Strehle Elementary, Avondale is opening Tuesday
• Grand Isle School is closed indefinitely

All other public schools were scheduled to reopen Monday.

Catholic schools
• St. Agnes, Old Jefferson will reopen Tuesday.
• St. Catherine of Siena, Old Metairie will reopen Tuesday.

All other Catholic schools in Jefferson Parish are scheduled to reopen Monday.

• Memorial Baptist Christian School: Thursday.

Other private schools
All will reopen Monday
• Arden Cahill Academy
• Crescent City Christian School
• Faith Lutheran School
• John Curtis Christian School
• Ecole Classique
• Kehoe-France School
• Lutheran High School
• Metairie Park Country Day School
• Ridgewood Preparatory School
• Salem Lutheran School
• St. Martin's Episcopal School

The American Red Cross Southeast Louisiana Chapter today announced additional shelters and feeding locations in southeast Louisiana.

A group of 30 firefighters from the New Orleans area set out Sunday afternoon to storm-battered Terrebonne Parish to help with firefighting and other emergency response situations in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.

In the wake of Hurricane Gustav, only five public schools Jefferson Parish still had no electricity today as officials pressed to reopen all other schools Monday. Two Catholic schools won't reopen Monday, either.

The five public schools without power were: Jefferson Elementary, Henry Ford Middle in Avondale, Grand Isle School, Norbert Rillieux Elementary in Waggaman and Catherine Strehle Elementary in Avondale. Officials held out hope of restoring power and holding classes Monday.

Due to the lack of electricity in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court and the Juvenile Justice Complex at 1546 Gretna Boulevard will be closed until further notice, the parish announced.

BATON ROUGE -- State and parish officials by mid-day Sunday were operating 55 centers distributing food, ice, water and tarps to victims of Hurricane Gustav and those who were still without utilities.

Jefferson Parish West Bank sewer system treatment plants and lift stations are now operational on commercial power or a combination of generator power and portable or vacuum pumps, the parish announced Saturday.

These government offices have announced re-openings for the following days. The list will be updated as information is received.

JOHN McCUSKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEBranden Kelly, 11, holds his little cousin Imani Kelly, 1, as they wait to board a bus for the westbank at the AMC Palace Theatre parking lot in Elmwood Friday. People evacuated from Jefferson parish return via plane and are then bussed to the AMC Palace in Elmwood for a final bus trip home. Many of the people stayed in the Shreveport/Bossier City area.

Publicly assisted evacuees began returning to Jefferson Parish in droves Friday, with some describing the experience as horrendous and others giving their weeklong experience passing marks.

But the return of 44 busloads of evacuees did not go without a significant snafu -- the arrival of some in Jefferson who were intended to arrive in places such as Lake Charles and Abbeville.