The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?
If you can figure out what has happened to Entergy please share it with the board. From my experience, everything now runs thru 17n New Orleans. You can’t get any local people who know s h i +. They have become an even worse example of corporate welfare monopoly than ever.The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?
So my neighborhood is split. About 1/4 is on enetergy, the rest are Yazoo valley. Enetergy customers are running generators and mad at the rest of the neighborhood because we have power.The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?
The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?
Entergy doesn't care about residential customers anymore, they only care about industrial customers. Sorry for the rant.
I posted this yesterday. I personally don't think they spent the money to mitigate storm damage that they should have in the first place. These were some serious thunderstorms but what the hell's gonna happen if we have an big tornado, severe ice storm or another Katrina.The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?
My take is that while this is not a record number of customers, there are a lot more spread out places that have to be fixed, large trees down, poles snapped, etc. Storms less strong than a tornado except in a few instances, but very wide wrecked a lot of stuff. Combine that with a round or two coming through daily that creates more outages and keeps them off the repairs until those clear. Typically we see a point event and recover. One lineman I know has eaten one meal at home the last 12 days.The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?
I saw a graphic last week showing Entergy has either purposefully cut or simply lost 2,500 employees in the 3 years. We have family in NE Jackson who’ve been out since Thursday night… and it ain’t like they live out in the sticks.The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?
This is what pisses me off most, and what the pSC needs to look into. I can understand that when 120,000 lose power & you have dangerous storms moving through every day, it’s going ti take a while. Big the communication was worse than non-existent. They intentionally tried to hide the status from us. Didn’t even let us see the outage map for 2 days. Then last night, my house suddenly goes from not even an estimate of when power might be restored to “Congratulations, you have power.”Certainly seems abnormal to me. My issue is the lack of communication.
Their outage map is usually helpful, but they've been intentional in not giving estimated repair times, which is now understandable with the long delays.
What's not understandable is not letting people know that multiple day outages are likely so they can make plans for living and food storage.
This is not typical when we're not dealing with impassable roads due to winter weather.
My take is that while this is not a record number of customers, there are a lot more spread out places that have to be fixed, large trees down, poles snapped, etc. Storms less strong than a tornado except in a few instances, but very wide wrecked a lot of stuff. Combine that with a round or two coming through daily that creates more outages and keeps them off the repairs until those clear. Typically we see a point event and recover. One lineman I know has eaten one meal at home the last 12 days.
All the transmission lines are back up. There was only 1 or 2 lines in very rural areas that caused outages. All the outages in the Jackson metro area were caused by distributionI was told several larger transmission lines damaged, along with reoccurring storms knocking out restored areas, it's been rough. Had one power company friend tell me the damage is second only to Katrina.
This would probably be the right thing… or at the very least some sort of inquiry into what caused the issue with power being off so long and how entergy will not allow that to happen in the future. And then make those findings public.Well, if this is true then this is a place where government intervention is actually vital. Lives are lost when power to residences is not available for extended periods. Especially in high or low temp periods.
If this is happening because of incompetent management, they need to answer for it. They are a public utility supplying an essential service.
This isn’t typical severe thunderstorm recovery. This is hurricane level damage with all parts of our service territory being hit at some point over the last week. Not just trees on lines and damaged poles but also damaged and broken transformers that have to be replaced and repaired. Culminating in the Friday morning round in the metro area Entergy had around 100,000 without service.
Unlike a hurricane, the recovery effort keeps having to start and stop when another round of storms rolls in because we have to pull damage scouts, line and vegetation crews back in until it finishes rolling through.
Just a reminder, it isn't government that 17n sucks at everything. It is always the people.If you can figure out what has happened to Entergy please share it with the board. From my experience, everything now runs thru 17n New Orleans. You can’t get any local people who know s h i +. They have become an even worse example of corporate welfare monopoly than ever.
Their initial outage map was detailed, but when they switched to the generic map with no street addresses is when I think they hit the oh **** moment of it being so widespread that they couldn't even get accurate damage assessment done to have the data to communicate.You're probably right and I know those lineman work their asses off in dangerous situations.
But they should be clearly communicating this to their customers in as many places as possible. We shouldn't be having to guess what's going on.
Not arguing about the damage but if was that bad did they call in crews from other areas as the normally do ? I haven't seen any out of state power company trucks.I was told several larger transmission lines damaged, along with reoccurring storms knocking out restored areas, it's been rough. Had one power company friend tell me the damage is second only to Katrina.
That checks out, and also explains why they had to stop providing details. Damage on top of prior damage assessment data, on top of not being able to stay safely deployed to do more assessment and repair.Got this from a buddy of mine...
I bet that is another issue. When a Katrina rolls in, trucks from all over are staged and ready to come assist. This was "just thunderstorms", and is a very odd weather pattern. I saw some weather guy name the pattern we are in and I've never heard of it in my 50+ years on earth.Not arguing about the damage but if was that bad did they call in crews from other areas as the normally do ? I haven't seen any out of state power company trucks.
Supposedly they brought in crews from Louisiana by Saturday. And I’m guessing maybe neighboring states had their own outages to deal with?Not arguing about the damage but if was that bad did they call in crews from other areas as the normally do ? I haven't seen any out of state power company trucks.
Got this from a buddy of mine...
When the tornado hit us a couple of weeks ago in Monroe county Ms it wiped out all the main lines. About day three a guy from the electric company showed up and said it would be two weeks, get prepared, and get a generator. I had two generators so I was ok, it wasn’t hot so we could sleep with the windows open. We would drive to my brothers every night and take a shower. The day after the visit from the electric company a crew showed up in my driveway, set a new pole and had our power on in an hour.Y’all lucky. I live in Marshall, tx. They telling us a minimum of 2 weeks with no power.
Those solar roofs are starting to look a little better too. **Time to start looking into a natural gas standby generator folks.
ETA: I'm also consistently amazed at how quickly they are able to unwind all the mess and get power back on. It's not a trivial matter.
The rural areas did. I would assume Entergy did. Probably contractors as well.Not arguing about the damage but if was that bad did they call in crews from other areas as the normally do ? I haven't seen any out of state power company trucks.
I’m debating now between a LPG generator or a three point hitch PTO generator. The stand alone generator is more convenient but the PTO generator is about a third of the cost.Time to start looking into a natural gas standby generator folks.
Surely the LPG generator is more efficient? Unless you have farm diesel to run the tractor, then it might be a no brainer.I’m debating now between a LPG generator or a three point hitch PTO generator. The stand alone generator is more convenient but the PTO generator is about a third of the cost.
Looks like a certain comment got deleted, and I get it. It will cause this thread to become political, but it’s the truth.
Those 3 letters that I won’t mention. It’s a problem nationwide. And it’s the consumer that suffers.
It seems like investment that would legitimately add value to your house when you sell also.Time to start looking into a natural gas standby generator folks.
Call the CEO. He's an MSU alum*****The amount of time it's taking to restore power seems abnormal. My parents have been without power since early Friday AM. Is it just too many homes and the weather hasn't cooperated?