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Nearly 18,000 without power in Jefferson Parish, Entergy says

The outages began around 7:40 p.m.

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — UPDATE: As of 11 p.m., 15,000 customers in Jefferson Parish were still without power. 

More than 17,900 Entergy customers in Jefferson Parish were without power as of 8:20 p.m. Monday, according to the utility's power outage map

The majority of the outages affect the west bank of Jefferson Parish, knocking out lights for almost the entirety of Timberlane south of Lapalco Boulevard to Engineers Road. 

The outages also extended across the Intracoastal Waterway to Woodmere along Barataria Boulevard. 

In Metairie, at least 2,000 customers around Clearview Parkway in between N. Causeway Boulevard and David Drive were without power, according to the map. 

The various outages started from around 7:40 to 8:10 p.m. 

A cause for the outages was not available on Entergy's online map, but they came as a heavy line of rain moved through the Metro Area.

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Entergy's outage map gave an automatic estimated power restoration time of 11:00 p.m.

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