hurricane Francine has left over 288,000 people in Southeast Louisiana without power as it tears through the region power outages are widespread across 21 parishes with orleans's Parish hit hardest over 61,000 homes and businesses in the dark crews are waiting for winds to drop below 30 mph to begin repairs but it's not just the power in Jefferson and Orleans parishes sewer systems are failing due to the outages raising fears of sewage backup into homes officials are racing to provide temporary power to critical infrastructure while New Orleans residents are urged to conserve water this is a developing story stay tuned for updates as hurricane Francine continues its path of destruction