We were again hit with another round of weather this morning, causing new outages in addition to the existing outages from previous storms this week.

In the last week, Entergy Mississippi has restored nearly 138,000 customers after back-to-back storms afflicted our service area.

Early morning storms brought strong, gusty high winds again into our Entergy service territory causing fallen trees and broken tree limbs resulting in outages and damages to our facilities. Outages as of 7:00 p.m. are at 58,866.

Severe weather, including thunderstorms and a tornado, pelted Entergy Mississippi’s service area Friday night, causing power outages for 15,398 customers at peak. As of 8 p.m., power has been restored to about 9,322 customers.

National Hurricane Preparedness Week is here.

After 1994, Entergy started transitioning to a more centralized approach to storm response that included leveraging resources across the company’s four-state area to accelerate service restoration.

Last week, I toured parts of the Entergy Mississippi service area that were devastated by the recent tornado outbreak, including Rolling Fork, Silver City and Winona. It was destruction that I have never seen in my time at Entergy or in my personal life as a Mississippian.