Has Entergy said how long it will take them to bring power back to Jeff/Orleans ?

They text this at 8:32 am:

Entergy: Widespread outages have occurred in your area. Estimated restoration times will be available once storm conditions allow for safe damage assessment. Learn more about our restoration process at entergy.com/restoration. Keeping you informed is important to us, and we appreciate your patience at this time. Please stay safe and thank you for being a valued Entergy Louisiana customer.

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Has Entergy said how long it will take them

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The adult version of "Are we there yet?"

They better have this fixed before the LSU game Saturday. Got to watch the BK hurricane.

Fix it?

They haven't yet even decided how much more to charge us for fixing it.

About 8AM this morning, there were about 50 bucket trucks in the old Kmart parking lot on Veterans by Causeway. I thought about going over there and telling them it was time for them to go to work.

Brother works for them… said could be 3 -14 days. Lean to longer then shorter

From what I heard on the Eastbank Fire Radio last night, JP had a lot of down sparking lines that Entergy needed to get to.

NOLA area

Probably standard answer they give, idk.

I’ll be your guide..

Major outages:
Transmission down to the substation(s) in your area. Most have two feeds so losing both obviously slows down restoration.

If your area substation has transmission power, the next is equipment internal to the substation. Lightning could have tripped equipment there like a main to the transformer or secondary breaker of the transformer. Substation maintenance crews will need to fully check the equipment before re-energizing there.

Each feeder (substations can have anywhere from one to four feeders per transformer and one to four transformers per sub) has a breaker which could be open. This signals a fault somewhere on the main trunk of the feeder before the next protective device; usually a recloser that sectionalizes the feeder into several parts based on feeder length or customer count. Most of the time it’s a vegetation issue like a tree taking a pole/line out, second are animals like squirrels, birds, etc (probably not the case after a storm), third is a car taking a pole down and 4th is equipment failure. Poles can be replaced within 6 hours after storm damage assessments are completed.

Lateral feeds off the trunk are typically fused, or, depending upon lateral load size, they use a recloser. Fuses are basically a one-shot trip. Branch hits the line taking it to ground and you’re out until it’s replaced. Reclosers are microprocessor based devices that can close back in after a fault up to 4x (if programmed for that many) before fully tripping open. This allows for a fault that is very short term, like a branch touching the line for a second and then dropping off the line, and not take the line out. If your power has 2-3x of tripping off and on before completely going out, it was a recloser checking to see if the fault had cleared before opening until a full restoration has been completed.

If you’re lucky, and there is an automated ALT tied to another feeder, you will get power back within minutes of the fault if it is located elsewhere and isolated by other protective devices.

Slower, manual restoration occurs by power company personnel after the fault has been isolated and load has confirmed to be low enough to allow switching accommodations to other feeders. Wire size, equipment on the line (disconnects), transformer capacity are limiting factors.

Only thing I’ve heard is it won’t be as bad as Ida.