re: Baton Rouge power outage

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Let people ask their questions and complain. For some it’s all they got.

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he says as he communicates instantly on the internet

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Check this map out...shows substations and transmission lines.

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good info for those curious or just wanting to learn where their power comes from. the coursey substation is located behind the life storage place in the green area between coursey & tollway. if you look in the outage map you can see why so many neighbor hoods are still out that are fed by that station.

entergy i can assure you knows where the substation is, and what it feeds. when the get it repaired, half of the current outages will disappear

the blue diamond on this screenshot is the coursey substation

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Antique Village in Denham is up. At least they’ve crossed Fla Blvd now. Still out north of N College.

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woohoo getting closer

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For those waiting on the coursey substation to come online, there is a small army of workers there since yesterday. The new transmission pole went up yesterday but not the lines. Looks like they are working on that now when I passed by.

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outstanding

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coursey substation

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Just curious, I see everyone discussing this, but don’t see anyone saying what happened. Was it poles or did something blow up or what?

TIA

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You have trouble reading

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irony

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I didn’t say they don’t have a plan

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Neither did I. Of course they have a plan. But, suggesting that they don't know what reasonable estimates are for general locations (that's what you said) is retarded.

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I said they don’t have a way to relay that plan to individual people without adding personnel and vetting the message. The people with the plan are engineers and EMS operators and supervisors. These people don’t exactly have a mechanism to relay their specific plans to every single customer a la cart.

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This is not an excuse. It's EXACTLY what the deficiency is. And, it is self evident that they don't need a specific plan to every single customer. When power is out in large areas, the communication can be directed to those areas.

And, that's the point. The communication should follow the plan.

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Again, any communication is going to be scrutinized. Entergy and other companies are constantly doing customer surveys. Hell, most employee’s bonuses are attached to the overall customer rating hitting a certain number. Inaccurate information, even if it’s an estimate, pisses people off more than you know.

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If Entergy's surveys are telling them that people don't want information and would prefer to be left in the dark, then they need to fire everyone involved in doing those surveys. This thread is proof of that.

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The two people in this thread who were relaying actual information about what substations are hot are people who obviously have access to the EMS data probably using a historian like PI. And if you haven’t been paying attention, for every time they’ve said that something should be happening, there are those who get their hopes up only to be let down

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Those two people have been tremendous and if you asked everyone in here if they appreciated the info, you'd probably get 97% positives that they do.

I found out the other day that Coursey substation was severely damaged. I found out that a LARGE number of people were tied to that substation because it fed a number of areas. I found out that they were actively working on it (more than previous days) 2 days ago.

I didn't find any of that out from the utility companies. Frankly, if they were smart enough, they would be embarrassed.

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I find it extremely ironic that you tell me I cant see the forest for the trees when it’s who you are being oblivious to some pretty logical points.

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I'm sure you do.

Entergy is a multi-billion dollar company. To suggest that they aren't capable of performing this type of management and communication is beyond ridiculous. Excusing it the way that you do shows how ignorant you are.

What areas does that substation affect? Does it feed into JT?

Sorry, I don't know that.

If anyone with Demco contacts could give me an update, that would be great.

I’m near a monster Demco switchyard/substation but still no power or activity this way. I made a gas run to Costco at midnight and secured another 25 gallons for the generator.