Hurricane Francine leaves thousands without power across New Orleans

Storm expected to weaken crossing northern Arkansas

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Residents of the Carrollton neighbourhood in New Orleans are among thousands who remained without power Friday after hurricane Francine passed through. Their frustration mounted as the city's electrical provider, Entergy, sent out notifications informing some people their power had been "restored" even though they still had no electricity.

"Every single storm, every one, no matter how big or how small, the same thing happens," said Rudy Cerone, 71, referring to the power outages. "Entergy just doesn't seem to take the necessary preparatory actions to harden this system to provide the power that we're paying through the nose for."

An Entergy New Orleans spokesperson said the city had restored power to more than 40,000 customers since Thursday and that many more would regain electricity by the end of the day Friday. Around 6,500 Entergy customers in the city lacked power as of Friday afternoon, part of about 95,000 customers in Louisiana still without electricity, according to the tracking site poweroutage.us.