CE Tiger

[quote]Well, that didn't happen. It's weird because when I look at the Entergy outage map it shows green, but when you zoom in closer to my house it goes to red. [/quote] Do you have something wrong where you can’t take power? Service drop damaged? A lot of lines can turn green but it’s not until...

Spillway is high today. Water on the road by Laplace...

[quote]GFS still has a major hurricane spinning up in the Caribbean in a week and half and entering the gulf as a Cat 3. [/quote] Please no. [img]https://i.ibb.co/J7M4z6G/1-AE39405-8916-4-C77-A3-C2-6-D2958445-C0-D.jpg[/img] ...

[quote]CE How is power restoration going in that area?[/quote] Kicking ass. Entergy is basically rebuilding some of its transmission line system (69kV - 500kV) . There were over 1400 destroyed structures and have repaired close to half. Distribution numbers are even bigger and their progress is...

Regardless of amount of rain this forecast sucks for Hurricane Laura restoration activities. ...

A lot of lights going on in Lake Charles tonight!! ...

[quote]not even going to get winds over 30mph tomorrow [/quote] Thank fricking god ...

[quote]has to go somewhere... [/quote] FloraBama would be my preference ...

[quote]Does anyone know of a resource online that updates with the tracks they may give a general idea of projected wind speeds in a given area like Covington/Mandeville? Wind will be my biggest issue.[/quote] These kmzs are great to use with google earth [link=(https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/)]L...

[quote]59K as of yesterday evening[/quote] If Sally causes significant damage it’s gonna be bad. Crews and materials are tapped out. I can’t imagine what the plan will be to restore another area of the service territory ...

I’m supposed to wake up in an hour to go to work for fricking Laura restoration. Now gonna have to plan this shite out. Have no clue what to do now...

frick...

[quote]CE from the engineering side?[/quote] Yea. Been here since Wednesday before the storm . Been some long nights and hard days but things are coming together. ...

Well as I continue to work to repair the 1400 destroyed Transmission poles all I can say is ... frick ...

[u]entergy’s outage map is correct, a good portion of Sulphur came back online this evening.[/u] Making great progress heating up the transmission line system. Fixed a tie from cleco that really got things moving two night ago...

[quote]the shortish tether line mean that the crews hook between the power lines? [/quote] That’s how you ground the lines and isolate your work zone in case a stray current comes through and zap...

[quote]500 kVa conductor[/quote] It’s just triple bundled normal conductor. But yea no ones keeps the amount they need for this restoration on hand ...

[quote]doesn’t require this area to design for 140 mph winds.[/quote] Entergy standards design for 140. That’s why there’s so many poles still standing. The old legacy stuff if what got wrecked...

No no no no no no...

One amazing thing for Lake Charles industrial is Entergy spent the last year beefing up the reliability for the industrial loop. All those poles are in great shape, Had this not been done I can’t imagine when these plants would be going back up ...