Hurricane Rita – Entergy

Hurricane Rita: Entergy Texas Employees Look Back

Entergy Team — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 06:00:00 +0000

Winnie Administrative Assistant Remembers Rita Like most Entergy employees who lived through hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Deborah Boudreaux remembers it well. She was known as Deborah Kramer, then, in the post she still holds as administrative assistant in Entergy Texas’ Winnie Service Center. And her memories of Hurricane Rita don’t revolve around the damage to her home. In fact…

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Powering Through: Entergy’s Rita Stories

Charlotte Cavell — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:00:00 +0000

Having just spent weeks in the New Orleans area helping with restoration after Hurricane Katrina’s devastating blow, Keith Coleman was eager to get home.But just after arriving in his hometown of Sulphur, La., he found out he would have to get back in the car and leave. Hurricane Rita was coming.So this former meter services employee – now a senior engineering assistant – evacuated with his family to his brother’s house in Oakdale, La.As the massive Rita made its way onto land near the Louisiana/Texas border around 2:30 on the morning of Sept. 24, 2005, Coleman couldn’t sleep. In fact, he and his brother-in law, Warren Faulk (Entergy serviceman first class in Lake Charles), headed back to the Lake Charles/Sulphur area around 7:30 a.m. that same day because they wanted to arrive as soon as possible.When they got to Lake Charles, all the bridges were closed. It wasn’t until later that afternoon that Coleman was able to make it to the company’s staging site at the West Calcasieu Arena – and because he had left so early, he was the first one there.“It was so chaotic all over the area and hard to get around,” Coleman said. “But our staging site was still there. I waited a couple of hours before our crews safely arrived to get set up for work.”

Preparedness, Response and Reliability – Entergy Recounts Damage and Restoration from Katrina/Rita

Kacee Kirschvink — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:00:00 +0000

Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. More resilient. All of these descriptions were used this week to describe Entergy’s storm response since hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast 10 years ago. Dennis Dawsey, vice president of customer service for Entergy Louisiana, Entergy Gulf States Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans, spoke Tuesday at a special briefing of the Gulf Coast Power…

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