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.

• View power outage map released by Gov's Office of Homeland Security.

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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.

When Mandeville Elementary School Principal Elizabeth Laine asked students why they were happy to be back at school after a four-day break caused by Hurricane Gustav, one boy replied, "Because I know I'm safe."

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.

These government offices have announced re-openings for the following days. The list will be updated as information is received.

St. Tammany Parish has released an updated list of boil-water orders for subdivisions in the parish. See the boil order in PDF format.

State health officials Friday removed Pirate's Harbor and St. Joe Estates subdivisions, both near Slidell, from the list of neighborhoods whose residents have been advised to boil their tap water before drinking it.

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.

State-government offices in 18 parishes, including five in the New Orleans area, remain closed today because of Hurricane Gustav, according to Commissioner of Administration Angele Davis.

Orleans Parish leads the area in power restoration overnight, as only 35 percent, or 49,836 customers remained without power this morning.