Floating party favors turned into neighborhood villains on Sunday evening when mylar balloons drifted into power lines in New Orleans East, cutting electricity to parts of Plum Orchard and Read Boulevard West. The lights went out around 6:30 p.m., darkening homes, intersections and a few businesses, before crews got most customers back online by about 7:30 p.m. Neighbors reported traffic lights blinking out and evening plans briefly put on pause.
What officials said
According to WWL-TV, Entergy said the outage started when a mylar balloon came into contact with a power line, knocking out service to more than 2,000 customers in New Orleans East. Crews isolated the fault and restored power to most customers by around 7:30 p.m., the station…..