Dive Summary:
- Entergy’s three Louisiana utilities – Entergy New Orleans, Entergy Louisiana, and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana – are expecting tropical storm Isaac to create strong winds, higher tides, rain, and flooding.
- The utilities will have line crews and contractors on call should the need for repair arise in the area, which has been included in a hurricane watch by the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
- Entergy’s Louisiana utilities serve more than one million customers in the southern part of the state.
From the article:
Entergy's three utilities in Louisiana are bracing for what is now Tropical Storm Isaac in the Florida Straits to cross the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days and hit their service territories, the company said Sunday.
The utilities -- Entergy New Orleans, Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana -- "are preparing for the possibility that strong winds, higher tides, rain and flooding could affect the companies' service territories in southern Louisiana," Entergy said in a statement. ...