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Roughly 8,000 temporarily lose power in Jefferson Parish, Entergy says

NOLA.com · last updated

Approximately 8,000 Entergy customers in Jefferson Parish were without power Wednesday evening as a slow-moving storm system approached the metro area.

The Entergy outage map showed approximately 7,888 customers in Jefferson were without power as of 7:30 p.m. The bulk of the outages appeared to be in Harahan and along Jefferson Highway on both sides of Clearview Parkway.

Entergy personnel are working restore power, according to a Facebook post by Jefferson Parish Councilman At-Large Scott Walker.

By about 9 p.m., Harahan had its power back and crews were working to restore the neighborhoods around Jefferson, with 2,346 still without power.

Meanwhile a slow-moving system is expected to drop up to 3 inches of rain an hour, with flash flooding is most likely to occur on Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

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