Helped restore power to 13,000 Mississippians affected by severe thunderstorms

Little Rock, Ark. – After helping to restore power to more than 13,000 Mississippians affected by Saturday’s major thunderstorms, restoration workers from Entergy Arkansas, Inc. returned home on Tuesday.

Entergy Arkansas sent 75 line workers and support personnel to help with restoration work in Mississippi, with the crews primarily working in the Yazoo City area on Sunday and Monday.

“We’re happy that we could pitch in and help get the lights back on for Mississippians who were affected by Saturday’s severe weather,” said Brady Aldy, director of Transmission and Distribution Operations, Entergy Arkansas, Inc. “From all accounts, our Arkansas crews provided a great response to Mississippi’s request for assistance and worked safely to get the power restored as quickly as possible. They did a great job but we’re happy to have them home.”

A series of severe thunderstorms hit central Mississippi and north Louisiana on Saturday, causing more than 13,000 customer outages in Mississippi and 4,400 outages in north Louisiana. The same storm also resulted in about 7,000 Entergy Arkansas customers to lose power on Friday night and Saturday.

In Yazoo City, Miss., where at least one tornado touched down, at least four miles of distribution line was completely destroyed and an estimated 100 poles were broken. Holmes and Attala counties saw another 75 broken poles.

With the help of Entergy crews from Arkansas, as well as Louisiana, all but a handful of customers had power restored by Tuesday.

Entergy’s utility companies support each other and participate in mutual assistance with other utility companies across the country. When Entergy companies need assistance after storms, restoration workers are sent to help safely restore power to customers.

Entergy Arkansas, Inc. provides electricity to almost 687,000 customers in 63 counties. Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and ret ail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plant s with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

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