power outage

Crews are having been working to restore power since early Wednesday morning.

Thousands of Swepco customers are still in the dark this morning after yesterday evenings high winds and lightning filled, torrential thunderstorms.

It's been a bizarre weather day in Shreveport-Bossier City.

A bizarre power outage this afternoon in west Shreveport affects thousands of SWEPCO customers.

Some Shreveport-area residents will be without power briefly during the transport of an incinerator to Camp Minden.

UPDATE: 12:20PM 1/8/15: Power has been restored at Caddo Heights Elementary following the replacement of a transformer near the school by AEP SWEPCO.

Herndon Magnet School, a kindergarten through 8th grade school in Belcher, closed earlier today due to a power outage.

Why was there a power failure during Super Bowl XLVII? No one is certain yet, but Superdome authorities and a power provider have agreed to use an outside firm to investigate the cause of the power outage that stopped Sunday's game for 34 minutes...

Strong thunderstorms blew through Shreveport/Bossier around 12:30am Thursday morning moving East across Northeast Texas and Northwest Louisiana with strong wind gusts reaching 35mph. At 9:00am Swepco.com reports outages for Caddo Parish numbering at just under 5,490 with Bossier around 7,400.

If you live in South Caddo Parish and find yourself having to reset all your flashing clocks when you get home this evening because your power went out while you were working, you’ll be able to thank the birthday boy....or somebody’s sweetheart.

The brunt of the cold front hitting our area has yet to peak and we're already experiencing some problems with electricity.  As of 7:25 this morning more than 1,000 SWEPCO customers in Caddo Parish were without power and additional outages are being reported on Swepco's Outages Map in Bossier Parish and Desoto Parish and in portions of East Texas and Southern Arkansas.

AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) is trying to prevent blackouts in the Shreveport area due to the high demand for electricity during this miserable heat. The message from SWEPCO is for us to turn off unnecessary lights, set our thermostats to 80 and try to use fans to supplement our excessive heat problems.