Still don’t have power? Here’s when utility companies say it will be back for MS Coast
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More than 56,000 are without power for a fourth day after Hurricane Zeta brought 100 mph winds to South Mississippi.
As residents fill available hotel rooms and wait in long take-out lines to get coffee and hot meals, crews are out restoring power. More crews arrived Friday and Saturday from other parts of the state to help.
Residents are chilly in their unheated homes as temperatures Friday morning were in the low 50s, an unusual experience for Gulf Coast residents used to high heat and humidity during peak storm season.
The three local utility companies are updating customers with social media and on their outage maps.
Outage totals as of 10 a.m. Sunday are:
Mississippi Power — 23,000
Coast Electric — 14,364
Singing River Electric — 19,222
Mississippi Power
Mississippi Power had 91,000 customers of the 190,000 served without power at peak as Hurricane Zeta zoomed through the state. That was down to 84,000 on Thursday morning, below 63,000 at noon Friday and 41,000 by 7 a.m. Saturday. Before 3 p.m. Friday, the company said it had restored power to 30,000 customers.
The company had all of the damage assessments completed Thursday and has a storm team of nearly 1,000 workers getting the power restored.
On Sunday morning, there are approximately 23,000 customers without service. The majority of those outages are between Biloxi and the Bay St. Louis-Waveland area.
As of Sunday morning, here’s the percentage of customers that have power restored in each city:
- D’Iberville - complete
- Moss Point - complete
- Pascagoula - 99%
- Ocean Springs - 90%
- Biloxi - 90%
- Bay St. Louis-Waveland - 59%
- Gulfport - 66%
- Leakesville - 62%
- Long Beach - 57%
- Lucedale - 50%
- Pass Christian - 44%
- Saucier - 68%
- Wiggins - 78%
Singing River Electric
Singing River Electric began power restoration with 66,388 meters without service, and is down to 19,222.
Here are outage numbers by county as of Sunday morning:
- George County: 7,300
- Jackson County: 7,100
- Greene County: 3,600
- Perry County: 551
- Wayne County: 325
- Harrison County: 197
- Washington County: 92
- Mobile County: 32
- Stone County: 28
The company said it continues to find its distribution system wrecked by trees brought down by Zeta’s winds, such as the area around George County’s Fig Farm Road.
An additional 79 linemen arrived Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Coast Electric
Crews have restored service to 50,636 members and removed 1,033 trees off of lines.
The company said Saturday it is beginning to work outages that are affecting smaller numbers of members, and these tend to take more time.
Crews will be working in the areas below. The list is not comprehensive and shows general areas.
Harrison County:
West Side of Hwy 49
- Coleman Rd
- Ashleigh Drive
- Moran Rd
- Northrup Cuevas Rd
- Cemetery Rd
- Houston Ladner Rd
- Borzik Rd
- Henry Harley Rd
- Briar Rd
- Mark West Rd
- Loren Cuevas Rd
- Clark Ln
- Gulf Haven Rd
- C.C. Camp Rd
- Mennonite Rd
- Bond Rd
- Saucier double circuit from substation to Hwy 49 (checking poles)
East Side of Hwy 49
O’neal Rd
- Success Community
- S Carr Bridge Rd
- Shriner’s Blvd
- Hwy 15 N feeder (Posey Bridge Rd, C.C Rd, Gilbert Preston Rd, etc)
- Lamey S feeder (to dump)
- Woolmarket SE & SW feeders
- Big Ridge Rd, Bachman Rd, Highland Rd
Hancock County:
- Kiln Delisle Rd from Wards to Fenton Dedeaux Rd (Magnolia Estates, Fenton Dedeaux Rd, Runnymede Rd, Magnolia Cove, Rotten Bayou Rd)
- Middle Dubuisson Rd, East Dubuisson Rd, Firetower Rd, Placides Rd
- Ansley and Heron Bay Area and Viola Garcia Rd and Lambert Lane
- Pearlington, Springwood Park, Bayside Park, Harbor Dr, Shoreline Park
- Paradise Rd, Good St, Fiber St, Wolfe St, Cain St (and surrounding area)
- Barth Rd
- Redfish
- White Cypress Lakes
- Shiloh Church Rd
- Jordan Rd
- Cleveland Ladner Rd ,F. Malley Rd, and along Vidalia Rd
- Deschamp Rd and Standard Dedeaux Rd
- Edwin Ladner Rd and JP Ladner Rd
- Crane Creek Rd, Shawtown Rd, McNeil McHenry Rd
- Old Kiln Picayune Rd
- Hwy 90 (by Bayside Park)
- Diamondhead (working scattered streets)
Pearl River County:
- Any remaining scattered outages
The Sun Herald will update this story at sunherald.com when more information is available.
This story was originally published October 30, 2020 at 1:46 PM.
