Tag Archive for: Restoration

Entergy Mississippi storm update – 4/14/24, 9 a.m.
We thank you for your patience while we restored your power as a result of storms that began April 9. Restoration is complete and electrical power has been restored to all customers who can safely receive power.

Entergy Mississippi storm update – 4/13/24, 10 a.m.
Continued restoration progress was made overnight and as of 9 a.m., 1,431 customers remain without power from this week’s severe storms and high winds. As of 9 a.m. Saturday, 85,596 customers have had their power restored.

Entergy Mississippi storm update – 4/12/24, 11 a.m.
Significant restoration progress was made overnight and as of 8 a.m., 6,844 customers remain without power from this week’s severe storms and high winds. As of 8 a.m. Friday, 69,966 customers have had their power restored.

Entergy Mississippi storm update – 4/11/24, 8 p.m.
Crews continue to make progress on the restoration process since Tuesday evening and Wednesday’s severe storms caused extensive damage to facilities across Entergy Mississippi’s service area. The National Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes impacted customers in Hinds and Madison counties.

Entergy Mississippi storm update – 4/10/24, 9 p.m.
Several thunderstorms, hail, lightning and high winds that passed through the state Tuesday night and continued throughout Wednesday caused extensive damage to our facilities across Entergy Mississippi’s service area. At peak, 33,600 customers have lost power from the damaging storms. As of 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, there are 25,853 customers without power.

Entergy Mississippi storm update – 4/10/24, 2 p.m.
Overnight thunderstorms caused extensive damage across Entergy Mississippi’s service area. Our crews have begun restoring power as soon as quickly and safely as possible. The majority of outages are in the Vicksburg, Madison, Jackson and Natchez areas. As of 1:30 p.m., we have 26,997 customers without power.

Reaping the benefit of a new design standard
Severe weather is impacting our region with increased strength and greater frequency. And, we are adapting. As we focus on hardening the grid, our goal is to make prudent investments and upgrades for crews to have a safer, faster restoration the next time a storm hits. One way we are hardening our system is by changing the design standard on pole construction from horizontal to vertical framing.

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.

Always ready: Entergy’s mobile command center
This year, if needed, our mobile command center is ready to assist in restoration efforts should a tropical system hit our area. The response vehicle can operate at or near the most impacted location a disaster area, with satellite-based communications equipment giving our operations personnel a link to the outside world when oftentimes such capabilities have been knocked offline.

Resilience and the rise of crisis-ready sites
Over the last several years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of extreme weather scenarios across the country, from disastrous floods to sweeping fires and paralyzing freezes. With so much potential for disruption, it’s critical to have a plan in place to get businesses and communities up and running when disaster strikes. No one is immune to crises, but we can take the appropriate steps to respond to them.
