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Thousands Of Entergy Customers Without Electricity In Frigid Cold

About 9,500 Entergy customers in Arkansas awoke to frigid temperatures and without electricity.

The utility reported that the number of outages had been reduced to just more than 4,500 shortly after 10 a.m.

Spokeswoman Sally Graham told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the outages could be due to the cold weather, causing power lines to sag and come in contact with the neutral lines, or that it could be fuses burning out.

The National Weather Service reports temperatures fell into single digits in many areas of northern Arkansas during the early morning, including a 1 degree reading at Flippin, 2 degrees in Harrison and 3 degrees in Fayetteville. The temperature fell to 10 degrees in Little Rock.

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