Entergy working to restore power following storms - WAPT Jackson
Entergy working to restore power following storms
People enduring second day of no power in high heat
Entergy is working to restore tens of thousands of power outages following storms Friday.
There were still more than 37,000 outages in the state Saturday, with more than 20,000 of those in Hinds County.
For some people, it has been two days without power as temperatures reached into the 90s.
Entergy said there are 1,250 employees working to restore power. Those include damage assessors, vegetation crews, line workers and support personnel.
Entergy Communications Manager Leyla Goodsell said crews are working as quickly as possible to safely restore people's power as soon as possible.
"As we are completing restoration in one area, we then re-route those people to the next big area that needs to be addressed or the next area that needs to be addressed, so we have people that we're moving all over to restore people as safely and as quickly as we possibly can," Goodsell said.
The power company said it will update its restoration times as they assess the damage and restore people's electricity.
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