Power Outage

Thousands of Lafayette residents experienced a power outage on Thursday morning, all because of a squirrel. 
According to KATC TV 3, a Lafayette Utilities System spokesperson says that at around 7:30 am a squirrel shorted out a distribution bus when it got between an insulator and grou…

MRO looked at the frequency and duration of power outages across the country and when it comes to time in the dark, Louisiana is near the top.

SWEPCO has resumed conducting controlled outages to lessen burden on power grid.

According to a statement from the power company, the outages should not last more than a couple hours.

Though they've restored power to over 40,000 other customers, there are still 18,000 SWEPCO customers in the dark this morning after the winter storm.

It took a little more than a month to get over 93,000 south Louisiana residents back online following Hurricane Laura.

Almost 100,000 Louisiana residents are still without electricity two and a half weeks after Laura's landfall.

The power was out for several hours for several thousand electric customers in Southwest Louisiana.

Through its network of mutual aid, SWEPCO has 150 utility workers from Ft. Worth, Abilene, and Austin, Texas to assist with power restoration.