Power Still Out for about 800 Entergy Arkansas Customers
By: KARK 4 News
Updated: September 10, 2012
Power is still out for about 800 Entergy Arkansas customers left in the dark by storms Friday night. Those outages are spread across about 20 counties.
Pulaski County had the most outages at last report (10:00 a.m.) Monday morning, with a little under 600.
The video attached to this story shows Entergy contract crews working in Little Rock. They are from New River Electrical of Virginia.
Entergy called in the extra help after Friday's storms with high winds and lightning left widespread damage and caused power outages for about 60,000 Entergy Arkansas customers statewide.
At 10 o'clock this morning, crews were working along Vega Drive near Chicot Road.
Power is expected to be restored to all customers by one o'clock this afternoon.
Additional crews from other states are also working in the Batesville and Russellville areas this morning. A total of 388 additional linemen were working in those two cities and Little Rock.
If you see a downed power line call 1-800-9- OUTAGE.
Pulaski County had the most outages at last report (10:00 a.m.) Monday morning, with a little under 600.
The video attached to this story shows Entergy contract crews working in Little Rock. They are from New River Electrical of Virginia.
Entergy called in the extra help after Friday's storms with high winds and lightning left widespread damage and caused power outages for about 60,000 Entergy Arkansas customers statewide.
At 10 o'clock this morning, crews were working along Vega Drive near Chicot Road.
Power is expected to be restored to all customers by one o'clock this afternoon.
Additional crews from other states are also working in the Batesville and Russellville areas this morning. A total of 388 additional linemen were working in those two cities and Little Rock.
If you see a downed power line call 1-800-9- OUTAGE.
