David Lewis – Entergy

Utility Scam Artists Turning to Texts

David Lewis — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:40:00 +0000

Customers, please beware of text messages that appear to be from Entergy demanding money from you. This is a new version of an old scam, previously done with phone calls, that’s been going on for years. Text-based scams are called “smishing.” The messages look like they could be legit because the scammers have the target customer’s name and address. In some cases, they even provide the name or…

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Arkansas Winter Storm Outages Down to Near 2,000, Restoration Work Continues

David Lewis — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 06:26:00 +0000

Just over 2,000 Entergy Arkansas customers remain without power following a winter storm Saturday. This is down from 6,194 outages at the peak at 4 p.m. yesterday. Most outages are in the Harrison/Flippin area, though more than 200 instances of damaged electrical equipment range from Green Forest to Mountain View. Most outages are the result of heavy, wet snow causing trees and limbs to lean or…

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Hundreds of Lineworkers Tackle Snow-Related Outages in North Arkansas

David Lewis — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 05:33:00 +0000

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Garner Gassman Was Lineman of the Game

David Lewis — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:40:00 +0000

The Saints’ season is over, but we’re still celebrating an Arkansas connection to our corporate HQ’s home team. Garner Gassman, serviceman from Malvern, Arkansas, represented Entergy as the Lineman of the Game during the New Orleans Saints vs. Miami Dolphins game Dec. 27. Gassman has been with Entergy for 15 years. For his first seven years he was in the transmission group, working all over the…

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Little Rock firefighters, Entergy Arkansas provide coats for students

David Lewis — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 04:18:00 +0000

The students at Booker T. Washington Elementary and Bale Elementary are winter-ready, thanks to a partnership between the Local Firefighters Union 34 and Entergy Arkansas. Through a project called “Operation Warm,” firefighters and Entergy Arkansas are outfitting students in pre-K through fifth grade at the two public schools with new winter coats. The International Association of Fire Fighters…

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Entergy Arkansas helps with saline solution

David Lewis — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:54:00 +0000

Entergy Arkansas is a long-time supporter of The Nature Conservancy, both financially and with donated talent and muscle. We recently donated $40,000 from the Entergy Environmental Initiatives Fund toward completion of the Saline River project described below, and former Entergy Arkansas Chairman and CEO Hugh McDonald is chairman of the board of the Arkansas Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

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Entergy Arkansas’ first female line worker ‘loves the adventure’

David Lewis — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:57:00 +0000

Sara Russell-Lingo didn’t set out to make history. But after a few post-high-school years of dead-end warehouse jobs and a stint in retail, “I was looking for a career.” She found one as the first female Entergy Arkansas lineworker. Saw it on TV Russell-Lingo, 25, grew up in South Bend, Ark., a community near Jacksonville. It may be that electricity is in her blood; her grandfather is a…

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Entergy Puts Practice Into Play During Hurricane Season (T&D World Magazine)

David Lewis — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:00:00 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic, an economic shutdown and political turmoil: Could things have been much worse in late summer 2020? Yes, it turns out they could be and were, especially for electric utilities with operations across the U.S. Gulf Coast and their customers. A series of destructive storms hit the coastline. On Aug. 27, Hurricane Laura slammed Louisiana with a ferocity not seen since 1856…

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‘Strategic Doing’ Helps Get Economic Development Done in Harrison

David Lewis — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:44:00 +0000

Successful economic development is usually the result of getting many small things done to clear the way for the bigger things to happen. That was the thinking behind the Community Catalyst program, which is funded by Entergy Arkansas and conducted in partnership with the University of Central Arkansas’ Center for Community and Economic Development and Mississippi State University’s Stennis…

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Birds to Blame for Blinks

David Lewis — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 02:26:00 +0000

It’s a fact of electric utility life that sometimes animals cause power outages. Usually, it’s squirrels. But this week it’s birds. Egrets, herons, cormorants and sometimes turkey vultures, as far as we can tell. And may we suggest you finish your breakfast before reading the explanation. Entergy Arkansas has a 48-mile stretch of transmission line from Parkin to Newport. Crops are still in the…

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