Around the clock efforts continue to restore power

SHREVEPORT, La. - Efforts continue around the clock to get the power restored to tens of thousands of SWEPCO customers following last Friday's severe weather. Friday's storms, which included a confirmed EF-1 tornado as well as hurricane-level straight line winds, delivered a punch to both the transmission and distribution stations. More severe weather barreled through the region on Sunday and knocked out additional service. To make matters worse, another heat advisory will be in effect Monday, according to the National Weather Service-Shreveport. At 4:30 a.m. Monday, more than 132,000 customers were still without service. That's a lot, but it is down significantly from the more than 230,000 on Friday. According to SWEPCO's website, most of the outages are in Caddo and Bossier parishes and Harrison and Gregg counties in east Texas.