April 29 update – Crews battling outages from overnight storms – 10 a.m.

Crews throughout the service territory continue to battle outages as severe weather rocked much of the Southeast last night.

The system had a peak of about 3,400 customers lose power around 3:40 a.m. with the primary causes of overnight outages being lightning and broken power poles.

“There are eight broken poles between Laurel and Waynesboro and six more in Meridian. Along with the broken poles, there are wire and trees down in the associated areas,” Customer Operations Manager Charlie Sentell said.

“Because of the increased activity in Pine Belt and Meridian, we’ve shifted some of our line crew resources north.”

Monitor the status of outages in virtually real time via our online outage map at mississippipower.com.