We have made significant progress in the first 12 hours of our restoration efforts as we have restored power to close to 59% of impacted customers.

As of 8 a.m., approximately 10,300 customers are without power. Customers should be prepared for more outages and flexible restoration times as wind gusts continue throughout Thursday, and severe weather threatens the service area into the weekend.

Sustained high winds are moving through the Entergy Mississippi service territory, resulting in widespread customer outages. These winds are expected to last into the evening. As of 5:30 p.m., approximately 15,000 customers are without power. Our crews including linemen, damage assessors, vegetation workers and support personnel are working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.

Kyle Sanford is an engineering supervisor and co-chair of the Waterford 3 Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging group.

Stay safe by marking underground utility lines in advance

The new executives include Lee Alexander, vice president of power plant operations, Kamisha Quates, vice president of reliability and Jeremy Vanderloo, vice president of business operations and strategy.