By 5 p.m. Saturday, the number of Louisiana residents without power had fallen to 26,035.

The number of Acadiana residents without electricity has also declined significantly.

Here are the numbers as of Saturday 5:00 p.m. according to FindEnergy.com:
St. Mary Parish 66 of 19,003 customers
Parish of St. Martin 77 of 26,286 customers
Lafayette Parish 1 of 136,644 customers

No power outages have been reported in other Acadiana communities.

Here are the communities with the most outages since Saturday 5:00 p.m.:
Terrebonne Municipality 14,715 of 27,317
Parish of Lafourche 2,356 of 42,727
Parish of St. John the Baptist 2,062 of 19,420
Jefferson Parish 2,144 of 216,442
Parish of the Assumption of Mary 1,049 of 10,439

If you would like to follow outage and recovery numbers in other communities, click here.

Here’s what we hear from Acadiana utilities:

LUS report from Saturday afternoon:
Lafayette Utilities System (LUS) linemen and response partners from Gainesville Regional Utilities and the City of Tallahassee, Florida, have completed Hurricane Francine restoration efforts in Houma, Louisiana, and are heading home today.

“We were happy to offer assistance to a neighboring city struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Francine,” said Jeffrey Stewart, director of LUS.

The collaboration between LUS and neighboring cities like Gainesville and Tallahassee underscores the spirit of cooperation and mutual support that characterizes the public energy community. Through APPA’s mutual aid network, utilities across the country come together during crises to provide vital assistance and resources to communities in need.

Report from Entergy Louisiana, Saturday, 5:00 p.m.:
Entergy expects to be able to restore power to 95% of all Louisiana customers who lost power following Hurricane Francine and safely restore power by this evening.

Currently, about 22,000 customers in southeast Louisiana are without power from Francine. Most of the outages occurred in coastal areas of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, which were hardest hit by strong winds and heavy rains.

Using all resources at its disposal, Entergy Louisiana’s approximately 8,000-person storm team continues to assess damage while restoring power.

Assessments are nearly complete and scouts have identified damage to nearly 650 power poles, over 150 transformers and approximately 1,125 sections of distribution lines that need to be repaired or replaced.

The geography of southeast Louisiana presents unique challenges for utility companies, but our dedicated teams utilize specialized equipment such as hovercraft and swamp buggies to safely complete repairs.

Estimated recovery times
While many customers may have power restored sooner, Entergy Louisiana expects power to be restored to most customers who can safely receive service by Sunday night.

Estimated recovery times will depend on the severity of damage in each area, as reflected in the parish breakdown below. Coastal areas, including Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes, experienced some of the strongest winds, and recovery in those parishes will take longer.

Make sure your home or business is ready for power restoration from us:

• We cannot restore power to a location with a damaged meter base, conduit, or weatherhead (the metal pipe that leads up from the structure and contains electrical wires). These must be repaired by a qualified electrician before Entergy can restore power.
• If there is water damage to your property, please turn off the power at either the main fuse box or the circuit breaker.

o Call a licensed electrician if necessary. A licensed electrician may need to inspect the electrical wiring on your property before Entergy can restore power to a home or business damaged by rain or flooding.

• Even if no material damage occurs, caution is still advised.

o After power is restored, check for damage to the electrical system. If you notice sparks, broken or frayed wires, or the smell of hot insulation, turn off the power at either the main fuse box or circuit breaker.
To stay up to date with our restoration efforts:

COX
As of 10 a.m. Saturday, Cox says it has “restored service to over 84% of affected customers. In most cases, Cox services will be restored once power is restored. Our teams continue to work diligently in the hardest-hit areas in Acadiana and Greater Baton Rouge, including Ascension Parish, to restore service and ensure every customer is back online immediately.”

In addition, customers will receive text alerts and emails with service restoration updates. If a customer has received a notification that major repairs have been completed in their neighborhood and continues to experience issues, they should follow these steps:

1. Reset the device by unplugging and replugging it.
2. Chat with us at cox.com (cox.com) if resetting the device does not solve the problem.
3. If service is not restored, contact Cox at 877-556-7815 to schedule a service appointment.

CLECO
Here is the latest information from Cleco, as of Friday 3:00 p.m.:

Cleco is in the home stretch of power restoration! We are working hard to restore power to the remaining 3,050 customers affected by Hurricane Francine. Most customers will have power restored by the end of today, September 13th, with the remainder expected to have power restored by tomorrow, September 14th.

Disruption update at 3 p.m.:
-St. Tammany Parish: 45 customers without power, expected to be restored by today, September 13.
-St. Mary Parish: 3,007 customers without power, expected to be restored by tomorrow, Sept. 14.

We are incredibly proud of our teams who are working tirelessly to safely restore power, and we are grateful to our customers for their patience and support!

If your home or business is damaged, you may need a certified electrician to make repairs before we can safely restore power.

For further updates, visit www.cleco.com/StormCenter.

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