Entergy Arkansas says about 500 customers, mainly in the Little Rock areaa remain without electricity.
Thompson says that with the ground so saturated because of the wet weather, there may be some sporadic outages in the next day or two because of toppling trees.
Winter storms leave thousands without power
Monday's winter storm knocked out power to 14,000 Entergy customers statewide. By 10pm, that number was down to 4,000. Melanie Wonner lives just off of Ferndale Cut-Off in Pulaski County and was left with no power Monday afternoon. "Just trying to get by, laundry is halfway done, the dishwasher is halfway run," Wonner says laughing. We caught up with an Entergy crew fixing the problem down the road.
"Basically isolate all the trouble we have then we'll begin our process of grounding and switching and be able to fix the trouble and then we'll hit everybody back on," says Justin Rogers, Entergy Lineman about the Ferndale area in Pulaski County.
Entergy says heavy weighed down trees from all the snow and rain leaning on lines is causing most of the outages and cars running into power poles is also knocking out power in some places.
Entergy hopes to have most people back on by Monday night, but some residents in Little Rock may have to wait until tomorrow. We're told everyone should be on by 5pm tomorrrow night.
For more information on outages and progress, log onto
www.entergy.com
