nearly 80% of outages restored from wednesday storms
several storms brought flash flooding, lightning, damaging hail, and gusts of wind greater than 60 mph across the state wednesday, causing approximately 26,000 customer interruptions and a peak of 16,525.
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from finding yourself in a mess of mud in the middle of a louisiana bayou to thawing out the door handle of your truck during an arkansas ice storm, there are a wide range of challenges that entergy lineworkers face during storm restoration.
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as of 8 a.m., crews and resources were working to restore outages to the remaining 1,000 customers as quickly and as safely as possible.
as of 4 p.m., statewide outages have been reduced to 3,540 customers. over 86,000 customer outages have been restored, totaling 95% of customers who experienced an outage in the last few days.
the remaining customers without power are in the hardest-hit areas of forrest city, marion, stuttgart, harrisburg and blytheville.
statewide outages from this week's severe winter weather have been reduced to approximately 6,420 customers saturday evening, from a wednesday peak of 30k.
freezing rain is falling in the southern part of the state, but the majority of outages from the winter storms should be restored this weekend.
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