Begins day with 63 percent of customers restored since height of storm

PINEVILLE, La. – (9 a.m.) – Cleco crews are entering their second day of restoration efforts after Tropical Storm Barry left roughly 63,000 customers without power across the state. This morning, the company has restored power to approximately 40,000 of those customers.

“Starting our second day of restoration, we have restored power to 63 percent of our customers since the height of the storm,” said James Lass, general manager of distribution operations and emergency management. “We continue our restoration efforts with 1,400 contractor crews in addition to our Cleco workers and staff.”

Cleco crews and contractors continue to replace broken poles, crossarms and repair downed lines. Cleco is collapsing crews to the harder hit areas of St. Mary and Iberia parishes.

“We are expecting some rain and winds to come through the area later today that could create additional outages,” said Lass.  “However, our team is committed to working as quickly and as safely as possible to restore power to our customers.”

As of 9 a.m., Cleco had approximately 23,000 customers without power. 

For more information, visit Cleco’s Storm Center  or follow the company on Facebook at @ClecoPower.