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.

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

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.

BATON ROUGE -- The federal program that covered thousands of New Orleans roofs with free temporary blue tarps after Hurricane Katrina is back to assist homeowners hit by Hurricane Gustav.

Operation Blue Roof is opening to residents of St. Charles, St. John and St. James and 10 other parishes. Officials say the program will expand to other parishes soon.

St. Charles Parish has issued the following frequently asked questions and answers for its residents:

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.

Things were going relatively well for the St. Charles Parish Water Department until someone smashed through the side of the department's east bank offices in Norco, damaging three employees' personal vehicles Thursday night.

St. John the Baptist Parish public schools will reopen to students Wednesday if power is restored in the parish by then.

The St. Charles Parish Council will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, but several items are likely to be postponed until more residents return from evacuations. Much of the meeting will be taken up by reports from parish and federal officials about the response to Hurricane Gustav.

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.