Entergy Mississippi winter storm update – 1/13/24, 1:30 p.m.
Early morning storms bringing strong, gusty high winds entered our Entergy service territory Friday morning causing fallen trees and broken tree limbs, resulting in outages and damages to our facilities. Additionally, the winds continued to gust through the day Friday generating new outages. As of 9 a.m. today, Entergy has restored service to more than 22,086 customers. About 1,516 customers remain without power as of 1 p.m. Damage assessment has identified damages to 92 poles, eight transformers, 67 cross arms, and 260 spans (71,500 feet) of downed wire. A workforce of more than 580 damage assessors, vegetation crews, line workers, and support personnel are diligently working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible through this event.