Excessive Power Outages

Wanna be more specific as to where you are located?

It’s only going to get worse. If you’re able to look at their infrastructure as a whole, you’d be very concerned. I look at Monday through Thursday, I know.

Bluff Rd area from C. Braud to the new middle school. Outage yesterday was before any rain and several fuses were tripped from DQ to Bluff. I have a decent emergency setup for power outages, but debating the move to a whole home generator as no sustainable improvements are evident.

I’m off of 42 in oak grove right near airline. Lost power for almost 5hrs Friday night. Looked at the outage map and this small area was the only without power in the br and surrounding area.

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I’d gladly share costs for reliable repair if I was also elegible to collect on profits thereafter.

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You can absolutely do this….buy some stock in Entergy and that is exactly what you will be doing!

Can you show me the direct correlation between stock purchases and equipment repair in my direct area? Or, even the top 10% bad actors?

Appreciate your continued input to help.

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Intent of this thread was to help identify any options for the entire section

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like what? Entergy already knows when your power goes out so they already know where the problem areas are. If you are asking if there is anything you as a consumer can do to expedite an improvement the answer is no

full disclosure entergy was my largest client for decades and I’ve spent hundreds of hours on site at their service centers. Each one used to have a fairly large and well equipped vegetation department responsible for maintaining overhead clearances but most of that has been subcontracted now. There are way too many miles of at risk overhead lines to be proactive about it so it’s generally a response to an issue service. Also people bitch up and down when they get a little too enthusiastic about cutting

it’s just the way it is there’s not really a good long term solution that is economically feasible. And honestly it’s not that big a deal hurricanes notwithstanding

Power is out again. I'm calling the parish tomorrow. I'm willing to work with anyone along Hwy 427/bliff Rd. to make our voices heard. I'm tired of being charged $27/mo for storm restoration and losing power 15 times a year. Maybe start with a councilman?

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Entergy doesn't trim trees as aggressively as they have in the past.

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Alabama Power is the same. It was over a decade ago when they came to trim branches in the easement between our yard and the neighbors behind us. Now they've all grown up again. I had a branch fall, get wedged between two tree trunks, and was resting on the powerline. I called to report it, and they said as long as it didn't down the line, they were not messing with it. I don't have a bucket truck and a saw to remove it myself, so almost 4 years later it is still there. On my neighbor's side, not mine, and he apparently doesn't care to take care of it. He's a weird little Japanese guy that destroyed a beautiful yard to put in his garden. I walked back to the fence one day and he had old metal filing cabinets laid on their back with the drawers removed for raised garden beds.