Power outages remain a day after Francine's landfall in Louisiana

Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reported live from Baton Rouge on Sept. 12, as crews across Louisiana worked to restore electricity.

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00:00Right now we're going to check in with storm chaser Aaron Jajak who is live in Baton Rouge,

00:04Louisiana where power outages remain. Aaron, you had some intense video at times yesterday

00:10with that wind and the rain, a pretty fierce storm for some. So what was the experience

00:16like for you and what's the status in areas like Baton Rouge as well? Yeah, so yesterday I was down

00:23on the coast there in Duloc, Louisiana just to the south of Houma waiting for that storm to come ashore

00:29and you know just like lots of other hurricanes I've been in, things started gradually and then

00:35flip like a switch was flipped, those strong hurricane force winds started really hammering

00:39the area. Trucked the eye wall north from Duloc, moved in with it until I got to Houma and it

00:46continued to batter Houma for quite a while there. You know, typically with these storms you know

00:51you're it's not like a supercell or a severe weather where it's just real quick, it's over

00:55after a few minutes, you know this is hours of being in a storm especially when you're moving

01:00north with that eye wall and it battered Houma, continued to move to the north through the New

01:05Orleans area and even to southeastern Baton Rouge where I'm actually at now this afternoon where

01:11this morning 100,000 residents woke up without power in this area, mostly in the Ascension

01:17Parish area which is on the southeast side of Baton Rouge. Power lines are down from trees

01:23falling on them and crews have been furiously working here to try and get that power back

01:27online. They're trying to get some lines hot, I talked to some crews down the road trying to get

01:31those lines hot and scouting for where the actual power outages are caught, where they're caused by

01:36so they can send contractors out to get those lines fixed and still now this afternoon I'm

01:40still, I'm sitting at this intersection right here on the interstate where back behind me there's a

01:46some stoplights though, all the stoplights about here around this area are all out, they don't have

01:51any power to get those stoplights working. The gas stations are out here, they're out of gas,

01:54one gas station on the corner here said signs up and they're out of gas, the one I'm standing at

01:59here is offline with power but there is one gas station here that is running, they must be running

02:04a generator and it is very crowded at that gas station so things are trying to get back to normal

02:09here. It should be a pretty quick recovery here in Baton Rouge area, you know they weren't hit

02:13too hard as I looked at some of the data, it looked like they were in the 50 to 60 mile per

02:17hour gust range so minimal damage here but all it takes is a few trees to go down on those power

02:22lines and start causing problems here. Well thanks for that report there Aaron, I know you had a wild

02:29time yesterday, I'm glad things are stabilizing slowly across the area, obviously about 290,000

02:36addresses still without power in the state of Louisiana so it'll be some time there but I know

02:40that Entergy and other utility crews are out doing their thing to get everybody back online. Thanks

02:46for your reporting there. Aaron J. Jack in Baton Rouge, you can see the signs behind it there,

02:50I-10 east and west, again this general area in southern parts of Louisiana.