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re: Power back on estimate BR area are in.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:27 pm to Bamboozles
Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:27 pm to Bamboozles
No specific time frame I take it? I will hold out hope from your post.
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Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:28 pm to Bamboozles
By today, do you think they mean “today” today or some future today that has not yet been determined?
Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:41 pm to Lsupimp
“Probably today” is likely the best answer to give someone to avoid an angry citizen from asking a million questions
Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:03 pm to TrueBaldPate
About two weeks ago six (6) streets next to Broadmoor High, here in badden Rouge, lost power at 3:30 PM. One power pole had erupted in flames so a new pole had to be installed along with a transformer. energy (?) got the lectric back on at 11:48 PM.
It took them nearly 9 (nine) hours to install one (1) pole and transformer and re string the cable (wire).
It took them nearly 9 (nine) hours to install one (1) pole and transformer and re string the cable (wire).
Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:14 pm to SantaFe
It’s back on in the BBT, baws !
Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:15 pm to Lsupimp
Yep just got it fired back up in JT. TYFYS linemen
Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:17 pm to TigerFan91
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Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:18 pm to TigerFan91
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I am a lineman for the parish and I float the main bayou..
Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:19 pm to TigerFan91
Thank goodness. I was getting a bit too day deep in beer.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:21 pm to Lsupimp
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I am a lineman for the parish and I float the main bayou..
You know, growing up I thought he was a phone lineman, and was up on the wires working, and had some sort of device he could listen to the phone call with ("I can hear you through the wires.")
And that he heard hear talking to her boyfriend.
"But your Wichita Lineman, is still on the line."
I don't know how I concocted up that scenario from the lyrics but...that's what I thought
Posted on 5/14/24 at 7:16 pm to fr33manator
So I had the generator hooked up and running 2 refrigerators and a shop fan. Entergy literally texted me that power restoration would be pushed back to 10p on 5/16... 15 minutes before they restored power.
I still have that shop fan blasting air around the house, and the AC cranked up now. Feels awesome.
I still have that shop fan blasting air around the house, and the AC cranked up now. Feels awesome.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 7:33 pm to Scoob
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Entergy literally texted me that power restoration would be pushed back to 10p on 5/16... 15 minutes before they restored power.
I’d love to see behind the curtain to understand how their automated notification system actually works.
It seems to work reasonably well during isolated outages, which makes sense. But I don’t think it’s reasonably practical/possible to give accurate estimates on power restoration times for specific addresses after a widespread weather event, when you often have crews assessing and making repairs as they go.
I bet a lot of it is based on metrics (e.g. estimated number of repairs combined with the number of crews in an area along with average time to asses and repair each item, in order to develop a rough guess) rather than actually based on real reports of the specific repairs needed in each neighborhood.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:32 pm to lostinbr
quote:I think they switched to a default time and notification last night.
I’d love to see behind the curtain to understand how their automated notification system actually works.
It seems to work reasonably well during isolated outages, which makes sense. But I don’t think it’s reasonably practical/possible to give accurate estimates on power restoration times for specific addresses after a widespread weather event
I say that, because I have lost power recently, and got the text notifications. When I got home from work around 8:30, I looked at my texts, found the Entergy one, and started sending "stat" back to it. That gives you the most current estimated response. I always used to get a time, but last night I just got "Entergy aware of the outage".
Around 9:30 or so, after checking a few times, I got the response "Entergy is upgrading our system, try back soon". I got that a couple times, and then I got the 5/16 @ 5pm response everyone got. So I think they just shut the regular system down and put that one up as a default.
I spoke to one of the guys who got ours back up, he was parked in a truck at at street corner. He said he came up from New Orleans, had been with Entergy in Nola since Katrina. He said they had to shut more down due to the damage, isolate the bad spots and then they could restore the rest. I believe him, as last night my son took a drive to check damage in the area. My son said he saw some arcing on power lines by a church, like in the movies... I told the guy that, and he said yeah, there were several broken switches (or whatever) and the wires were still hot, they had to shut them down. He said those guys ain't getting power back for a few days, but they were able to isolate them and the rest were good.
Here's a stock photo, my son said it was like this, but said it was red
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