Crews are still scrambling to bring back power to the 219 transmission lines knocked out by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana last week, leaving 110,000 households still without power on Sept. 4. The effort requires a full-scale reconstruction, and the sheer logistics of rebuilding each line includes many moving parts.
“This is not a restoration. It’s almost a complete rebuild of our transmission and distribution system that serves Calcasieu and Cameron parishes,” Phillip May, Entergy Louisiana president and CEO said in a statement this week.