Cleco prepares for Louisiana hurricane season
On Thursday morning in Lacombe Cleco cleared-out overgrown branches and vegetation that could knock out power in the event of a severe storm.
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'Trees and vegetation in and around our right-of-ways are the leading cause of power outages, blinks, and damage in normal day-to-day weather events, and especially during storms,' said Andre Guillory with Cleco. 'Preventing the damage before the storms reduces the amount of time customers are out, reduces the cost. It takes bringing crews from out of state to pick up damage and then eventually do the tree trimming that we have to do.'
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