The Entergy Mississippi Lineman Rodeo and Family Fun Day, held recently at the Mississippi Coliseum, provided the opportunity for apprentice and journeyman linemen to showcase their skills and allowed family and friends to watch them compete.

We thank you for your patience while we restored over 18,500 customers who lost power as a result of the thunderstorms with high winds, heavy rain and lightning that moved through the Entergy Mississippi service territory Sunday night through Tuesday afternoon.

We continue to make progress in restoring power due to severe thunderstorms bringing high winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity that passed through the Entergy Mississippi service territory Sunday night and this afternoon causing customer outages.

High winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity brought down trees and limbs, causing approximately 18,500 storm related outages across the service area. As of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, power had been restored to 15,022 customers. Past drought conditions also continue to make dead trees outside of the right-of-way a cause of many outages.

Severe thunderstorms bringing high winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity passed through the Entergy Mississippi service territory overnight causing customer outages. As of 6:00 p.m., approximately 6,100 customers are without power after reaching a peak of 8,689 customer outages at 7:30 a.m. this morning.

Throughout our celebration of Grand Gulf’s 40 years, it’s only fitting that we feature the site’s most tenured employees. Meet Robert Fuller, here since startup days in October 1984, a model of longevity in service to the station.