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At least 3,100 lose power in New Orleans East | News | nola.com

More than 3,100 homes and businesses lost commercial electricity in New Orleans East on Saturday afternoon and power was restored a few hours later, according to Entergy New Orleans.

Initial investigation into the Mid-City outage indicates a broken limb caused some wire to fall. Rain did not cause a transformer to ‘blow" according to Beau Tidwell, spokesperson for Entergy New Orleans

Restoration efforts in New Orleans East are ongoing, with 500 customers still impacted.

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