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Emergency News  Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 10:51 AM The only SLEMCO customers out of power at the current time are those needing to repair their homes or businesses before we can provide them with power.
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 4:00 PM Repairs have been completed on our Esther substation and customers south of Abbeville served by that substation have had their power restored. Damaged locations still won't have power until homeowners make repairs and call to request service. Repairs are being completed on our Erath substation at this time. Within the next two to three hours, we will be energizing the feeders of that substation. At that time, all SLEMCO customers served by the Erath substation who do not have damage to their home or business will have power.
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 11:30 AM Both the Pecan Island and Cow Island substations in Vermilion Parish are energized and customers that can receive power have power. Others have repairs to make before we can provide them with power. Anyone in those areas who do not have power and have no damage should call our outage number at 1-888-275-3626. SLEMCO personnel are working on both the Esther and Erath substations at the current time. Barring any major complications, we expect these two substations and customers served by them to have power restored before nightfall tonight. Customers with damage to their homes in those areas will not have power. Those customers will have to call in when repairs are made and we will provide them with electric service at that time. The total number of SLEMCO customers without power at this time is 2,361.
Monday, Sept. 15, 2008 3:30 PM Some 2,600 SLEMCO customers are still without power this evening. Power has been restored to the Town of Erath. Cow Island and Pecan Island substations do have power. The only SLEMCO members out of power are Erath customers outside the city limits and those served by the Esther substation located south of Abbeville. We still cannot access the Esther substation because of flooded roadways. Each of these substations were built in areas where residential and commercial development showed a need for more electrical capacity. The Esther substation was built in 1969, the Cow Island substation in 1973, the Pecan Island substation in 1982 and the Erath substation in 1985. None of these substations ever flooded during hurricanes prior to Hurricanes Rita and Ike and they did not flood during Hurricanes Lili and Gustav. We are working to find a solution that will take into account both floodwaters and high winds in these substations for the future since both wind and water can do great damage to our substations.
Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 5:00 PM The only outages that SLEMCO currently has are the 5,141 customers out of power in Vermilion Parish whose substations are still under water. The water has begun to recede but not enough to allow for the necessary work to be done in the substations. As soon as waters recede to 18 inches and repairs can be made, those customers will have power.
Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 8:00 AM The only outages that SLEMCO currently has are the 5,141 customers out of power in Vermilion Parish whose substations are still under water. As soon as waters recede and repairs can be made, those customers will have power.
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 4:00 PM SLEMCO Vermilion Parish Outage Information Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 10:30 AM SLEMCO currently has 5,582 customers without power: crews are currently working on the outages. The parish breakdown is as follows:
Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 7:00 PM We currently have approximately 3,000 - 5,000 customers without power. In Vermilion Parish, the winds are getting too high to safely work in and we will soon be calling all line crews back in to safety. Outages in other areas will be worked tonight as weather conditions allow.
Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 3:52 PM SLEMCO Esther Substation De-Energized Due To Flooding At 3:15 p.m. today, SLEMCO de-energized its Esther substation
due to flooding. Storm surge floodwaters from Hurricane Ike
had been rising throughout the day and when the water reached three
feet into the electrical equipment and very near the control panel,
the decision was made to safely de-energize the station in a controlled
manner in order to prevent major damage to the electrical system,
reduce the overall length of the outage and eliminate any danger
to the public and SLEMCO employees.
 Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 9:17 AM As of 10:15 Sunday night, Entergy restored power to their transmission line which allowed us to provide power to Melville, Krotz Springs and Three Mile Lake. Any other SLEMCO customers without power, who do not have
damage to their homes, should call our outage reporting line
at 1-888-275-3626. Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 8:18 AM With the exception of Krotz Springs and Melville, all SLEMCO customers whose homes are able to receive power have had their power restored. We are waiting on transmission services from Entergy, not our own system. Until Entergy is able to provide us with transmission services, we cannot reconnect our customers in Krotz Springs and Melville. Once we have transmission power in the Krotz Springs and Melville areas, all of Krotz Springs and the Three Mile Lake area will have power. Some 95 percent of Melville will have power once we receive transmission services. The remaining five percent in Melville have home damage that must be repaired before we can provide them with power. Any other SLEMCO customers without power, who do not have
damage to their homes, should call our outage reporting line
at 1-888-275-3626. Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008 5:26 PM The only groups of customers that remain out this evening are
in the Krotz Springs and Melville areas. We have 3,500 customers
still without power in that area due to lack of transmission into
our distribution facilities. Any other SLEMCO customers
without power, who do not have damage to their homes, should call
our outage reporting line at 1-888-275-3626. Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008 8:30 AM We currently have 3,973 customers without power. Some 3500 of those are located in St. Landry Parish in the Krotz Springs area and cannot be reconnected until transmission line repairs can be made. The remaining 473 customers still out will be worked on today. We expect that some of the 473 still out of power will not be able to be reconnected because the homeowners will need to make repairs before we can restore the power to their locations.
Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 5:00 PM As of 5 p.m., SLEMCO has restored power to 75,984 customers and has another 9,274 customers without power. Linemen will return to the SLEMCO facilities tonight with data on the progress made today, which is expected to be significant. At 9 a.m. tomorrow morning we will provide updates on numbers and geographic locations where power has been restored.
Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 10:00 AM All SLEMCO customers in Vermilion, Cameron and Iberia Parishes should have power. SLEMCO customers south of I-10 in Lafayette and Acadia Parishes should have power. SLEMCO customers in St. Martin Parish west of LA Highway 31 should have power. Substantial progress is being made in St. Landry, Avoyelles and Evangeline parishes as well as in Lafayette and Acadia parishes north of I-10 and in St. Martin parish east of LA Highway 31. We have restored power to 75,357 customers in three days. There are still 9,901 customers or 11 percent of our system out of power. Anyone not having power in the areas listed
as completely restored should call SLEMCO at 1-888-275-3626 and
request that an outage report be made for their location. Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 8:37 AM SLEMCO crews and contractor crews made significant headway yesterday restoring power to customers throughout Acadiana. We have restored power to all but 13 percent of our system. The number of customers still without power has dropped to 12,362. Power has been restored to approximately half of the Butte LaRose area and we will make excellent progress there today as well, with eight construction and three right-of-way crews, approximately 75 workers, assigned to the area today. The Church Point-Branch-Mire area will be another focal point of today’s efforts with 26 crews, some 250 people, being assigned today to that location alone. All of the main lines have been restored and we will be focusing on house to house connections of homes that did not have power restored when the feeders were re-energized. Work in all other areas is steadily progressing. Below is a parish breakdown of outage numbers as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 7:37 PM Current outage numbers for SLEMCO are as follows:
The next update will be at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, once we've
tallied the linemen’s reports of what was restored on their house
to house efforts during the day today. Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 12:00 PM Here are our outage numbers as of noon today:
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 7:00 AM Most of our feeders are on and the house to house work will begin in many areas today. Because locations will be turned on one at a time by linemen in the field, we will not have numbers every few hours like we've had the last few days. We'll gather the information as the crews come in at night and report them around 9 a.m. each morning. Our outage numbers as of 6:30 a.m. this morning:
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 7:45 PM Parish breakdown of outages:
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 5:21 PM
(Left to right) SLEMCO's Steven Habetz, Ty Lavergne and Damon Vincent from our Crowley service center were working in an isolated field to restore power today. The workers had to walk to the site that was in a wooded area, carrying their tools and pulling a flatbottom boat needed to restore power at the location. Call 888-275-3626 to report outages to SLEMCO. Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 4:30 PM Parish breakdown of outages:
We still have 49,223 customers out of power. We have restored power to 36,035 customers. Our toll-free outage number is 888-275-3626. Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 11:00 AM We have restored power to 33,618 customers so far. Another 51,640 are still without power. Here is a parish breakdown of outages:
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 7:00 AM As of 7:00 a.m. today we have restored power to 31,498 SLEMCO customers. Another 53,760 are still out. Several hundred line crews and their equipment arrived last night. They rolled out at 6:00 a.m. this morning and will be working all day today. Our toll-free outage number is 888-275-3626. Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 7:30 PM Here’s a final parish breakdown of our outages for Tuesday, Sept. 2, as of 7:30 p.m. Crews will begin working again at dawn tomorrow, 9/3/08.
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 5:44 PM Here are the SLEMCO electrical outage numbers as of 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 5:01 PM SLEMCO has restored power to 21,423 customers so far today. Another 63,828 remain without power. We should have one more update later tonight. Our toll-free outage number is 888-275-3626.
We have restored power to 16,895 customers and 68,363 are still out of power. We will continue to update you regularly. Our focus remains on feeders which will restore power to the most people at one time. Our toll-free outage number is 888-275-3626.
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 1:34 PM We have restored power to 14,919 customers as of 1:00 p.m. today. Another 70,332 are still without power. We will continue to update you on the progress as the day continues. We are hearing word from our linemen that the Butte LaRose area of St. Martin Parish sustained significant damage. Our toll-free outage number is 888-275-3626. Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 12:11 PM As of noon today 11,296 SLEMCO customers have had their power restored. There are still 73,962 customers without power. That is 79% of our system. Steady progress is being made with the major focus on substations and feeders. Since repairing feeders restores power to the most homes, house to house work will begin after the feeders are restored. Our toll-free outage number is 888-275-3626. Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 10:30 AM As of 10:30 a.m. this morning we have restored power to 9,743 customers. We still have 75,515 out of power. We are down from having 91% of our system out to having 80% of our system out. Our toll-free outage number is 888-275-3626. Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 9:44 AM As of 9:40 a.m. this morning we have restored power to 6,953 SLEMCO customers. We still have 78,305 customers out of power which is 83.78% of our system. Crews have come in from Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio and parts of Louisiana that weren't impacted by Hurricane Gustav. Our toll-free outage number is back in service
at this time. The number is 888-275-3626. Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 6:17 AM SLEMCO Damage Greatest in St. Landry, St. Martin Parish Although there is damage throughout the SLEMCO electrical system,
St. Martin and St. Landry parish were hit especially hard. Trees
were a major problem during yesterday’s hurricane. As
trees were toppled by wind, they took power lines down with them. Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 5:00 PM Here are the SLEMCO electrical outage numbers as of 5:00 p.m. on Monday, September 1, 2008.
Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 5:00 PM New SLEMCO Outage Phone Number; Crews Are Being Mobilized Our
toll-free outage number is not working properly at this time. Anyone
needing to reach SLEMCO to report an outage should dial 337-896-5551.
As soon as the toll-free number is operational again, we will let
all media outlets know. Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 4:00 PM Here are the SLEMCO electrical outage numbers as of 4:00 p.m. on Monday, September 1, 2008.
Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 2:56 PM Here are the SLEMCO electrical outage numbers as of 2:56 p.m. on Monday, September 1, 2008.
SLEMCO cautions that you should consider
any downed power line energized and potentially deadly! Do
not try to move a power line that has fallen on the ground under
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