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Entergy Repairing Damage to Critical Infrastructure
BEAUMONT, September 1, 2017 - Flooding is significantly impacting Entergy Texas’ ability to restore power to customers in some areas. Several substations that distribute electric service to many customers over large areas are experiencing outages due to flooding. In addition, multiple transmission lines that feed areas are also affected. The peak number of outages across our system was 85,000 Wednesday morning. While the company has restored more than 200,000 outages since Hurricane Harvey made landfall a week ago, the flooding from Harvey has caused the outage numbers to remain steady. “This event is unprecedented. The continued flooding of the area makes restoration efforts difficult. We have a number of our facilities, like substations, flooded; additionally, flooded roadways makes it difficult to access areas to begin restoring power,” said Vernon Pierce, vice president of customer service for Entergy Texas. “We appreciate everyone’s patience as we work to get the power restored to everyone.” High-water vehicles, air boats and helicopters are all being used to get crews into the hardest hit areas to restore power. For specific information about damage and restoration information for the various locations, visit entergystormcenter.com or visit http://www.etrviewoutage.com/external/tx.aspx |
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