A break in severe weather has enabled repair crews to restore power to multiple areas overnight, including Bossier City in Louisiana, De Queen and Nashville in Arkansas, and Waskom, Texas. These efforts follow substantial damage to power lines from relentless storms, compounded by challenges posed by flooding.
Challenges in Severely Flooded Areas
Restoration work remains methodical due to extensive flooding and isolated, hazardous conditions. Crews navigate these treacherous areas with caution, prioritizing safety amidst the dangers they face. Boats have been deployed in particularly flooded locations to facilitate access to areas requiring attention. Despite high floodwaters hindering about a dozen repairs throughout the service region, teams utilize ground, aerial, and water resources to reach work sites.
Receiving Direct Restoration Updates
Crews express optimism that sunny weather will prompt floodwaters to recede, allowing restoration tasks to proceed more efficiently. Customers enrolled for email or text notifications can receive direct updates regarding the anticipated time for power restoration to their homes or businesses, while efforts continue to address the outages.
A welcome break in the weather allowed crews to make more progress. Power was restored last night to customers in Bossier City, Louisiana, De Queen and Nashville in Arkansas and in Waskom, Texas.
Latest damage estimates show many miles of damaged wire due to the relentless storms. Additionally, flooding brings extra challenges and complexities.
Severely flooded work areas
Safety for one another remains top of mind as crews work in dangerous conditions
The work is often slow and deliberate because of the extensive flooding and hard-to-reach, sometimes treacherous terrain.
Several crews have deployed boats in severely flooded work areas. Safety for one another remains top of mind as crews work in dangerous conditions.
They continue to leverage resources on the ground, in the air and on boats to make the way to where work needs to be done. Across the service territory, the dangerous and high floodwaters slowed about a dozen individual repairs.
Direct updates on the estimated restoration time
With the sun shining, crews are hopeful the waters will recede to allow for this work to proceed.
Customers who signed up for email or text alerts could receive direct updates on the estimated restoration time at their home or business as crews continue working to restore power.
