By mary kathryn carpenter

NATCHEZ — Approximately 2,500 Entergy customers in North Natchez lost power Tuesday when work being done on a transmission line hit a snag.

According to Entergy spokesperson Tim Runnels, at 12:18 p.m. 2,520 customers lost power when a transmission line that was being worked on broke and fell on a distribution line.

Luckily, Runnels said, the situation was not as bad as it could have been.

“Since there was work being done on the line, the line was on a setting that would make it trip if something went wrong, so it would cause minimal damage,” Runnels said.

It took approximately an hour to restore power to all 2,520 customers according to Runnels.

He said power was fixed within seconds for 769 customers in the Duncan Park area due to a new system Entergy is using that transfers customers to an alternate power source.

In the Liberty Road area, 841 customers’ power was restored at 1:04 p.m. The last 910 customers along U.S. 61 North, Palestine Road and in Morgantown, including Wal-Mart, Natchez High School and Adams County Christian School were without power until 1:24 p.m.

As far as Runnels knew Tuesday afternoon, there was little to no damage caused by the outage.

“I haven’t had any complaints come in yet,” Runnels said. “We do have power outages and people do have equipment damage, but I haven’t heard of any so far.”