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.

• View power outage map released by Gov's Office of Homeland Security.

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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.

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.

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.

The Plaquemines Parish School Board has announced the status of school reopenings in the parish.

The Canal Street and Chalmette ferries have reopened after Hurricane Gustav, the state Department of Transportation announced.

BATON ROUGE -- The death toll from Hurricane Gustav grew to 23 Friday with health officials reporting three fatalities in St. Charles Parish and one in Winn Parish.

City Park, which sustained more than $500,000 in Gustav-related damage, is asking volunteers to show up Saturday at 9 a.m. to help clean up leaves, branches and other debris.

Rusty Costanza / The Times-PicayuneGov. Bobby Jindal pictured here on Wednesday.

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday called on schools and universities in the areas hit hard by Hurricane Gustav to prepare hot meals for returning evacuees and those stranded without power.

State-government offices in 18 parishes, including five in the New Orleans area, remain closed today because of Hurricane Gustav, according to Commissioner of Administration Angele Davis.