A lightening storm rumbled through St. Tammany Monday evening, zapping power to nearly 10,000 area residents as 40 mph winds toppled tree limbs and thunderclouds dumped 1 to 2 inches of rain throughout the parish.
"It was a very intense lightening storm," Tim Destri, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Slidell, said. "People were probably jarred awake last night."
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No injuries were reported.
As of Tuesday morning, Washington-St. Tammany Electric reported 8,000 homeowners who lost power.
All but a sliver of those homes were back on line by Tuesday morning, Kurt Hellmann, manager of government relations, said.
Cleco reported 1,160 customers who lost power between 9:30 p.m. and 3:30 a.m. By daybreak, power to those homes was restored, said Scott Biggers, manager of customer and community services.
The largest Cleco outage occurred on U.S. Highway 190 approaching Covington, where a down tree damaged power lines that halted power for 160 customers.
In Covington and Mandeville, about 750 customers lost power, with 510 in Slidell and Pearl River areas, Biggers said.
The storm stretched from Hattiesburg, Miss., in the north, south through St. Tammany, continuing through New Orleans and south to the Gulf of Mexico coastline, Destri said.
It erupted when a warm, moist air front from the south clashed with a cold front from the west, Destri said.
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J.D.Zaffuto wrote on Sep 15, 2009 7:19 PM:
Your hwy 21 project just like the whole city. The road is not even finished and it is falling apart.Where
did you get the rum dumb contractors.I was speaking with fellow Realtors and they believe city hall needs an enemia.This includes the Sherrif,he cant even keep the prisoners in jail,what a disgrace,I noticed how they hide that under the rug.What a sad situation in a parish where the property taxes is this high. Boston street on of the main streets feel like
New Orleans streets..Sad..Sad...Don't quit your daytime job.. "