LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Electricity keeps us going in our daily lives. Some people wonder how sturdy our grid is when there are flickers or outages, especially during severe weather.
An Entergy crew is currently updating the electricity in a southwest Little Rock neighborhood. After some concerns, the crew is taking a part of each line to set up for new.
The process of removing each pole takes several hours, but after the project is complete, the power should be more reliable.
It's a part of Entergy's efforts to make the grid more efficient as a whole.
Some people in the Little Rock area have been concerned with flickering or short outages, but Entergy said that shows the lines are working.
"When you see a blink, if you ever have to come home and reset your clocks, that tells you the system is trying to clear faults automatically," Entergy Customer Service Regional Manager Chris Cook said. "When you see multiple blinks, that causes us to investigate and find the issue."
Cook added just a couple of outages will prompt an investigation. Some of the biggest culprits of outages are weather, overgrown limbs or plants, animals and damage from a person.
After those short flickers, some people asked if the grid could handle other extreme weather, especially in the winter.
Entergy said the answer is yes.
"Periodically throughout the year, we have storm drills to prepare for those types of weather events," Cook said. "I would say to customers, 'Rest assured we are ready for winter time.'"