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Power outages reported in Acadiana

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Posted at 10:35 AM, Apr 10, 2024
and last updated 2024-04-10 17:08:37-04

With today's severe weather, reports of downed trees and power lines came in all morning, but as of Wednesday afternoon some power had been restored.

Here are the outages being reported by Acadiana's power companies on their outage maps as of 1:30 p.m. Wednesday:

Acadia Parish
Slemco: 6,312 customers without power. That's 42 percent of their 14,925 Acadia Parish customers.

CLECO: 160 customers without power.

Entergy: 1,120 customers without power.

Evangeline Parish
Slemco: 566 customers without power. That's 31 percent of their 1,804 Evangeline Parish customers.

CLECO: 2,487 customers without power.

Entergy: No outages reported

Iberia Parish
Slemco: No outages reported.

CLECO: 21 customers without power

Entergy: 1,046 customers without power

Jeff Davis Parish
Entergy: 2,855 customers without power

Lafayette Parish
Slemco: 1,499 customers without power. That's 3 percent of their 44,051 Lafayette Parish customers.

CLECO: No outages reported.

Entergy: 100 customers without power.

LUS: 400 customers without power. LUS also is predicting outages for another 93 customers.

St. Landry Parish
Parish government officials sent out the following:

32000 people in St. Landry Parish currently without power — 68% of the parish without power
20 powerlines down north of Washington. State police is aware and en route
About 30 roads with trees down

UPDATE: Cleco reports 7,472 customers without power on their St. Landry Parish networks as of 1:30 p.m. and Slemco reports 9,472 customers without power, which is 48 percent of their 19,727 St. Landry Parish customers.

Trees down: 
182 Harry Guilbeau in Opelousas
Grand Marias Road in Leonville
Don Guilbeau Rd in Arnaudville
Mushroom Rd in Arnaudville
Judson Walsh Drive in Opelousas
School Rd in Lawtell
Borel Rd in Sunset
Edward Rd in Opelousas
Thelma Drive in Sunset

8 poles are down on Highway 10 — 2 miles north of I-49 in Lawtell

Powerlines Down: 
Grolee and Raymond in Opelousas powerline down and debris
Auzenne Road in Leonville
Robert Daily Road in Sunset
Hypolite Miller Road in Sunset
Highway 90 near Chretien point in Opelousas
7315 Highway 105 Road Blockage in Krotz Springs
107 Normal LeJeune Road in Krotz Springs
5450 Highway 31 tree on road in Opelousas

St. Martin Parish
Slemco: 116 customers without power. That's less than one percent of their 16,787 St. Martin Parish customers.

CLECO: 105 customers without power.

Entergy: No outages reported.

St. Mary Parish
Slemco: No outages reported

CLECO: Nine customers without power.

Entergy: 130 customers without power.

Vermilion Parish
Slemco: 14 customers without power. That's less than 1 percent of their 15,605 Vermilion Parish customers.

CLECO: No outages reported.

Entergy: 428 customers without power.