Hurricane Francine, currently a tropical depression, continues moving northeastward from Louisiana through Mississippi. At 7 a.m., we had approximately 10,790 customer outages in the southern portion of our Entergy Mississippi territory. Outages are expected to fluctuate throughout the day as the storm moves through our service area and, therefore, are subject to change based upon the storm’s impact.

Power has been restored to nearly all Entergy Arkansas customers impacted by this week’s storms. Multiple fronts caused widespread outages across the state. Since the peak outage count of 39,370 during the evening of Aug. 18, Entergy Arkansas has successfully restored power to 99% of customers impacted.

Overnight thunderstorms brought heavy rains, strong winds, and lighting strikes into our service territory causing fallen trees and broken tree limbs resulting in outages and damages to our facilities.  As of 11 p.m. last night, a peak of 21,103 customers were without power. A strong restoration effort has taken place today and as of 7 p.m., 5,118 customers remain without power. Damage assessment has identified damages to 53 poles, 15 transformers, 35 cross arms, and over 42,000 feet  of downed wire. A workforce of damage assessors, vegetation crews, line workers, and support personnel are diligently working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible through this event. To support the restoration, 180 additional workers were requested and are currently working on site.