Entergy Mississippi continues to assess damage and restore power to customers impacted by high winds and lighting Sunday night. Damage assessment crews found more than 12 miles of downed wire and 47 damaged poles. More than 1,300 employees and contract partners are working long hours, restoring service to customers as safely and as quickly as possible.As of 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, fewer than 3,600 customers are without power, down from a peak of approximately 25,000 outages Sunday night.

Haley Fisackerly, president and CEO, Entergy Mississippi addresses storm recoverynOver more than a week, Entergy Mississippi and our customers experienced an unprecedented series of severe storms, tornados and unusually high winds that caused the largest outage in our service area since Hurricane Katrina. This event saw scores of fast-moving storm cells with 80+ mph winds cutting a widespread path through our entire service area.  This treacherous weather also came day-after-day, sometimes through the same areas repeatedly. The damage was so extensive that our power grid lost half as many poles, wires and transformers in one week as we lost from all storms in 2020, which was one of our worst storm years in recent history with four hurricanes and two tropical storms.

A workforce of 2,000 is restoring power as storms keep striking the service area