More Than 200 Thousand Without Power in NW Louisiana Area

SHREVEPORT, LA - Swepco crews will be working throughout the day to restore power to thousands of residents all across northwest Louisiana, northeast Texas, and southwest Arkansas. A massive storm packing high winds and heavy rains roared through during the early morning hours.

At about 1:30 this morning, Swepco outages were about 80,000, but that number swelled to more than 200,000 as of 3am Friday morning.

Shreveport and Caddo Parish crews were responding to hundreds of calls for service from downed trees and damage to some homes and businesses.

In my early drive to west Shreveport this morning, I found lights on from Youree at Kings to Line Avenue. If you traveled south on Line Avenue, the power was out from Betty Virginia Park to Pierremont. And that’s been the story all across the region. There are small pockets of neighborhoods with power, but the vast majority of the city is without power.

The order of the day today will be to clean up debris. There are reports of downed trees all across the region.