NEW ORLEANS — An animal getting in to electrical equipment at an Entergy substation caused an outage Monday morning that left a large part of the CBD and Tremé without power.
There were about 7,000 buildings in the dark in the New Orleans Central Business District and Tremé areas of town from the transformer outage at 11 a.m.
As of 6 p.m., there were still about 240 customers reported without power.
In the meantime, several businesses were without power through noon and unable to serve customers and several homes were without power on a day where temperatures were expected in the 90s.
Traffic lights were also out in some of the affected areas and that meant that drivers had to treat blinking or light outages as a four-way stop situation.
Thunderstorms were anticipated but not until later in the day.
The number of customers without power is down from a peak of around 8,500.