UPDATE: Cleco says power was out for less than a half-hour today in Opelousas, and that the outage was due to equipment failure.
"Cleco crews experienced an unforeseen equipment failure while conducting routine system upgrade work at a substation near Opelousas at 9:36 a.m. today, resulting in approximately 5,500 Cleco customers losing power," a release from the company states. "The issue was safely and quickly resolved, and power was restored to all impacted customers at 10 a.m."
Tuesday morning, Opelousas Mayor Julius Alsandor told us that the entire city's power is out.
"We are experiencing a power outage throughout the city. Everyone in the city residential and commercial included," the mayor said Tuesday morning. "The problem is being addressed as quickly as possible. We will keep you all abreast."
