Alabama NewsCenter — Alabama, Southern Company Responding to Hurricane Ida

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Southern Company is safely restoring electric service for thousands of customers in Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Ida and is prepared to help get the lights back on outside the company’s footprint after the storm left more than a million customers without power in Louisiana.

After wreaking catastrophic damage in Louisiana that included downed transmission lines that left the entire city of New Orleans in the dark, Ida continues to deliver strong winds and heavy rains on its path inland over Mississippi and northwest Alabama into Tennessee and the Northeast.

Southern Company and its operating companies began preparing ahead of Ida to respond to weather impacts across the service territory and to aid others under mutual assistance agreements. With each request for mutual assistance, the company first ensures sufficient resources are available to meet its own customer needs.

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