Harrah’s New Orleans Reopens in Hurricane Ida’s Destructive Aftermath
Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel and Casino reopened on Wednesday, 10 days after lethal Hurricane Ida knocked out powerfulness in the region. Other casinos in the New siege of Orleans area remain closed.
On its Facebook pageboy Wednesday, Harrah’s announced it is in one case again open for business.
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Like most casinos inwards the region, Harrah’s unsympathetic inward the years leading upwardly to Ida’s Aug. 29 landfall at Port Fourchon in the south of New Orleans.
Packing 150 mph sustained winds, Ida was fifth-strongest hurricane ever to come to the mainland US. The Category 4 hurricane left monolithic force outages on the Gulf Coast, continuing into this week. After pounding the coast, the hurricane veered toward the northeast. It caused extended flooding and killed dozens inwards that region.
In Louisiana, 13 riverboat casinos and four racinos — gymnastic horse tracks with expansion slot machines — are scattered end-to-end the state. Harrah’s New siege of Orleans is Louisiana’s only land-based casino.
One New Orleans-area riverboat, Boomtown Casino, reopened its tabular array games and expansion slot machines on Monday. Boomtown is to the south of downtown New Orleans, on the paired side of meat of the Mississippi River River in Harvey.
The casino level at Boomtown is operating below modified hours, from 7 am to 5 pm daily. The hotel is unsympathetic to guests.
“We are housing our displaced squad members inward enjoin to stay fresh the gambling casino staffed,” the Boomtown website states.
Other casinos in South Louisiana and on the Gulf Coast inwards Magnolia State experience reopened.
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As of Wednesday, Fair Grounds Race Course and Slot inward New siege of Orleans and the Treasure Chest riverboat cassino inwards Kenner remained closed, according to their websites. Kenner is on Lake Pontchartrain, northwest of downtown New Orleans.
Southwest of New Orleans, the Amelia Belle riverboat gambling casino near Morgan City is scheduled to commence operating once more on Th at 2 pm, according to its Facebook page.
The hurricane also had an wallop on the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, lot to drama its season opener at place inwards the Caesars Superdome against the Green River Bay Packers on Sunday. Because of the hurricane, the mettlesome has been moved to TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida.
New siege of Orleans Saints possessor Gayle Benson said it is non light to move a Saints home game come out of the Superdome. The popular squad has a big regional following.
“Collectively, we have a monumental task beforehand of us in cleaning upward the after effects left hand past Hurricane Ida,” she said, “but it has been inspiring to ascertain people getting right hand to work on and starting the process.”
Ida Wrecks Casino Profits
Carlo Santarelli, an psychoanalyst at Deutsche Bank, predicted Hurricane Ida testament make a 19 percent statewide diminution inward gaming gross revenue during August, compared to 2019, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Santarelli made that forecasting based on day-by-day disbursal “per measured visitor” inward August.
The statewide Aug gaming receipts revenue figures are expected to be released by the stop of this month.
In July, Louisiana casinos won $222 million, compared to $177.6 million inward July 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic’s initial summer surge.
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