Probably high 5 figures to mid 6 figures, depending on what you count as rebuilding. Lots of houses with no roof, or with trees through them that could go either way re teardown or repair.

I don't think anyone knows just yet. It took 4 days just to do the preliminary power outage assessment.

That seems hard to believe, tbh, but now I'm really bothered that I don't have any definitive source.

But "high 5 figures" would be >50k. According to this: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/05/hurric... they are looking at 22k power poles.

Were homes twice as likely to be destroyed than power poles were to be damaged?

Here's Entergy's visual: worse than the next 4 hurricanes on the list, combined, including Katrina. (This is part of what I meant when I said msm isn't covering it well up thread.)

https://www.entergy.com/hurricaneida/damage/

And Entergy only covers a portion of the area, but includes all of New Orleans and most of Baton Rouge.

There are a lot more trees than power poles to fall. Lots of trees fell through houses, which allowed additional water and damage, and they won't know anything until insurance and possibly an engineer or contractor look at it.

FEMA just started blue roof on Tuesday I think.

But definitely over 50k damaged, if not destroyed. Just depends on where you draw the line.