Thousands facing 4th day without power after Olga

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Close to three thousand customers are heading into day number four with no electricity after what was Tropical Storm Olga blew through with wind gusts higher than 70mph early Saturday morning.

Entergy had more than 1,000 out in Tangipahoa Parish Monday night.

More than 600 remained out in Jefferson Parish.  Ascension Parish had more than 800 outages.  There were smaller numbers in St. Tammany, Washington, Livingston, Orleans and Plaquemines Parish.

The Entergy website indicated some customers may remain out until 6:00pm on Tuesday.

CLECO and Washington / St. Tammany had just a handful of remaining outages.

At the height of the storm, more than 100,000 were without electricity.