More than 200K without power across Louisiana, outage map shows

LOUISIANA ( KLFY ) — More than 200,000 customers are without power across lower Louisiana late Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.us .

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Hurricane Francine made landfall Wednesday afternoon about 30 miles south-southwest of Morgan City as a Category 2 storm.

In St. Mary Parish, a little more than 72% of Cleco customers are without power as of 8 p.m. Wednesday. That’s 148 outages affecting roughly 13,800 customers, according to Cleco.

Other local parish outage counts, per the PowerOutage.us map, as of 8:11 p.m.:

• Lafayette – 165
• St. Martin – 843
• Iberia – 4,689
• Vermilion – 2,366
• Acadia – 10
• St. Landry – 6

PowerOutage.us shows reported outages for customers of multiple power suppliers, such as Cleco, SLECMO, Entergy and more.

As of 8:24 p.m. Wednesday, the outage map reports that approximately 230,800 customers in Louisiana are without power.

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