Tag Archive for: Flooding

Company Responds to Arkansas River Flooding; Outages Minimal

As the Arkansas River reaches record high levels this week, Entergy Arkansas is responding with measures to protect both people and equipment in flooded areas along the river.

Entergy Grant Helping New Orleanians Geaux Green, Mitigate Flooding

A unique partnership between Entergy and Green Light New Orleans is helping mitigate stormwater runoff, reduce carbon emissions and create a sustainable future for the City of New Orleans.

Remembering the Easter Flood of 1979

The devastating Easter Flood of 1979 is an unforgettable part of Jackson, Mississippi’s history. The Pearl River crested and flooded the city’s downtown that April. As expected, the community rose above the devastation. And Entergy, then Mississippi Power & Light, employees were there, fighting to protect the community’s electric power supply. Now 40 years later, some of our employees and retirees still remember the damage and how they pulled together to maintain service to customers.

How One Family Weathered A Challenging Year Following Harvey Floods

One year after Harvey, we’re still inspired by the resilience of our communities. The devastation from the storm brought out the best in people. We wanted to share just a few of the inspiring stories and people that make Southeast Texas strong.

Entergy Grant Helps Refurbish, Restock Flooded Schools’ Libraries

Students at Glen Oaks Park Elementary and Brookstown Middle School now have the opportunity to enjoy new library books that educate, celebrate and create awareness around the importance of diversity, inclusion, kindness, compassion and empathy.

Entergy Restores Power to Majority of Customers After Historic Flooding

Power has been restored to all of the customers who can safely receive it, ending a 14-day restoration effort by more than 3,300 Entergy employees and contractors from four states.

Fighting the Flood: Entergy Employees Restore in Texas

Entergy has restored more than 200,000 outages caused by multiple landfalls Harvey made since its arrival one week ago. The storm has now caused outages in all of our service territories with its sweep through Arkansas and Mississippi over the last 24 hours.

Entergy Employees Battle Harvey’s Flooding

Flooding is significantly impacting Entergy's ability to restore power to customers in some areas. Several substations, which distribute electric service to many customers over large areas, are experiencing outages due to flooding. Restoration of these locations is also being hampered, as workers are unable to access these areas. When flood waters recede and it is safe to do so, Entergy workers will assess damage and begin restoration of these assets.

Hurricane Harvey Restoration Update: Texas

This morning, more than 83,000 Entergy Texas customers were without power. Currently, there are 4,956 customers that are without power and not accessible to be restored due to high water access issues. Entergy has restored 110,697 outages since Harvey began impacting our area on Friday and our crews continue to safely restore power as quickly as possible.

Harvey Hits Texas Hard

Tropical Storm Harvey began affecting Southeast Texas Friday night and continues causing new power outages for Entergy Texas customers. Harvey is expected to move farther inland near Galveston on Wednesday, August 30th as a 50 mph tropical storm.  Additional outages are expected as the storm moves through. 

Harvey’s Rainfall Flooding Parts of Entergy Texas Area

Rising waters and a deluge of rainfall from what is now Tropical Storm Harvey continues to hammer areas of the Entergy Texas territory.

Entergy Volunteers Help Veteran Repair Flooded Home in Baton Rouge

Employees Enhance Community Impact through Resource Groups

Entergy Donations Aimed at Flood Recovery in the Baton Rouge Area

In continuing its efforts to help Baton Rouge customers and community partners recover from last year’s devastating floods, Entergy has awarded grants totaling $225,000 to two nonprofits.

Entergy Donates $300,000 to BRAF Flood Relief Fund

Entergy Corporation has contributed $300,000 to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s Louisiana Flood Relief Fund, which will be granted by the Foundation to local nonprofits that are responding to the biggest rainstorm in modern Louisiana history.

Entergy Helps Agencies and Communities Rise Above the Flood

When the floodwaters rose quickly with little time to act, many Baton Rouge homes and businesses were literally wiped out.
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