trees can bring beauty to your landscaping plan and will cool your home in the summer and keep winter winds away. fall is considered the perfect time to plant a tree, but do you know what trees to plant if you have power lines near your home?
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crews expect to restore power by tonight to the vast majority of customers still without electricity due to olga, with a few pockets of customers in the hardest hit areas to see power restored sometime tuesday.
crews have restored power to more than 79,000 of the customers affected by the remnants of tropical storm olga that hit louisiana saturday.
as of 8 a.m. sunday, power had been restored to approximately 66,000 of the 92,000 customers affected by the storm that caused significant damage to entergy infrastructure, largely in southeast louisiana. the new orleans metro area and hammond areas were hit the hardest by the storm that downed trees and damaged more than 150 poles.
crews have made progress, reducing a saturday morning peak of 92,000 customer outages to 31,000 — a more than 60% decrease — by 7 p.m.
olga moved quickly through louisiana, bringing thunderstorms and high winds that knocked out power to more than 92,000 customers at its peak saturday morning. as of 10:30 a.m. saturday, approximately 77,000 customer outages remained.
in 2018, entergy louisiana avoided emissions of carbon dioxide equal to the amount released in a year by more than 2.5 million passenger cars. how? with the safe, reliable, emission-free operations of our river bend and waterford 3 nuclear plants, operated by hundreds of dedicated and highly-trained nuclear professionals.
entergy won the award for its support of the lineman certification programs at delgado community college and fletcher technical community college.
while the calendar technically says it’s fall and everything now comes pumpkin spice flavored, louisianans are still feeling the heat.