BEAUMONT, Texas — Students, parents and educators dealt with a power outage on the first day of school at one Beaumont elementary school Wednesday morning.
A power outage at Regina-Howell Elementary School in the West End of Beaumont delayed the start of classes at the campus.
At 8:15 a.m. the outage was affecting 165 Entergy customers around the area of the campus according to Entergy's outage map. Power is expected to be restored by about 10 a.m. according to the utility company.
By 8:36 a.m. power had been restored according to Entergy.
Administrators at the school are still receiving students and breakfast is being served according to the Beaumont Independent School District.
The power went out at 7:15 a.m. according to Entergy.
A statement on the Entergy outage site stated "Reliability maintenance and upgrades are underway in your area. We apologize for the inconvenience as we work to improve our electrical service to you."
Entergy crews were working to replace a rotten "cross arm" and a "re-closer" that are two essential elements of an electrical pole according to Kendra James of Entergy who said someone at the school was notified in advance about the outage.
The repairs are being made to avoid extended outages in the future according to James.
The district was not notified in advance that the "reliability maintenance and upgrades" would be happening Wednesday morning according to BISD spokesperson Jackie Simien.
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