Officials are optimistic that the power won’t be out for much longer in southeast Louisiana for most customers.
Entergy CEO Phillip May said crews have been working around the clock and they now have a good estimation as to when you should have your lights back on.
“Big chunks of customers are going to be coming on within the next couple of days and I think over the weekend we will see more than half of our customers get restored,” said May.
328,000 Entergy customers remain without power as of 12 PM 10-30-2020.
May said Zeta delivered heavy wind damage in many places but thankfully didn’t damage core pieces of the Entergy grid. What they did get was a lot mess.
“What we are seeing is a lot of vegetation on our lines, trees on our lines, branches on our lines, we have poles broken, spans of wire down and so forth,” said May.
May estimates 90 percent of customers will be on within the week.
Governor Edwards said Election Day is Tuesday and it appears likely some polling stations in the southeast will be without power.
“What we anticipate happening is that power is going to be restored rapidly today but I cannot tell you that 100 percent of that is going to be restored by Tuesday,” said Edwards.
Edwards said they are working to identify every polling station that will not be in service Tuesday so they have an opportunity to select alternate locations.
“We need to have the machines and the poll workers prepared to go there but also try to communicate with the voters who vote at that precinct where the new location is,” said Edwards.
Edwards expected they will have an answer to which stations are viable by sometime Saturday.
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