More than 30,000 Baton Rouge-area residences, schools and businesses remained without power in the wake of a severe thunderstorm that ripped through southeastern Louisiana on Monday, uprooting trees, flooding roadways and snapping power lines.
Several school were closed Tuesday, mostly because of power outages.
Entergy said crews were working to restore power and additional resources arrived overnight to assist. The company estimated outages could last 48 to 72 hours for some customers in hard-hit area parishes of East Baton Rouge, Assumption, Ascension, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe coupee, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana.
Update on power outages: More than 30,000 customers were still without power across East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Ascension and Assumption parishes Tuesday morning, according to Entergy's outage map. Some traffic signals were affected.
A majority of those outages are in EBR, with some 27,000 without power. Livingston has around 2,500 outages, while Assumption has over 6,000 in the dark. Ascension Parish has around 9,500 still without power as well.
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