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• Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Rains of Gustav

  No sooner does Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana open a nuclear fabrication plant in Lake Charles, as noted below, than nature comes a-knocking. A busy man is Governor Jindal. But not only for the state is hurricane Gustav an issue - Entergy has also had its hands full, with almost 900,000 homes and businesses without electricity in the state. This tops the damage done by hurricane Rita in 2005 but... Posted Sep 02 2008, 04:54 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Hurricanes

• Status of the Electric Infrastructure due to Hurricane Gustav

  From Entergy : As of 5 a.m. this morning, electrical power outages from Gustav had reached more than 825,000 throughout the Entergy service territory, as outages continue occurring in Mississippi and north Louisiana. This is the second largest outage in company history, behind only Hurricane Katrina. Entergy’s transmission system has sustained massive damage, with 191 transmission lines and 210 substations... Posted Sep 02 2008, 12:30 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Hurricanes