LeTourneau remains without electricity

Published 12:10 pm Monday, May 17, 2010

LeTourneau Technologies in south Warren County was the only Entergy customer that remained without power this morning after a fallen tree in a thunderstorm Sunday night zapped power to 750.

LeTourneau General Manager Bo-D Massey said electricity failed in the entire facility around 11:15 p.m., and he was expecting to have power restored around 4 this afternoon. He said about 500 employees were sent home because the outage.

Entergy spokesman Mara Hartman said power has been restored to 750 customers who lost electricity during the storm. She expects power to LeToureau to be restored this afternoon.

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