entergy’s louisiana storm team is continuing to assess damages and restore power where it is safe to do so after a devastating hurricane laura exited the state thursday afternoon.
we continue acquiring more resources for our restoration teams, with more than 16,750 currently ready to restore service for customers whose power may be affected by laura.
a workforce of more than 13,000 will restore outages caused by hurricane laura
customers asked to conserve electricity.
members of entergy’s storm team are assessing damages and restoring power where it is safe to do so after hurricane laura made landfall thursday near cameron as a catastrophic category 4 hurricane, causing widespread damage to entergy’s electrical system and knocking out power to customers across louisiana and east texas.
at 8:15 a.m., 280,278 customers were without power. given the intensity of this storm and the additional need for our crews to follow covid-19 precautionary measures, hardest hit areas may experience outages for weeks.
as of 8:00 a.m., entergy texas has 102,500 customers without power.