Update: Entergy estimates 300 customers are without power as of noon today.
Original story:
According to Entergy’s outage map, nearly 12,000 Entergy customers are without power. The outage stretched to parts of the Central Business District, downtown, and Mid-City. Entergy says the outage started about 9:05 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Entergy’s website says an animal damaged equipment resulting in a power outage. New Orleans City Councilmember Helena Moreno tells WWLTV a bird possibly caused the damage to the Derbigny Substation.
Entergy estimates power to be restored about 3:00 p.m. today.
