Outage due to lightning strike shuts businesses in Corporate Blvd. area

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Lightning struck a piece of transmission equipment near Corporate Boulevard on Thursday afternoon, leaving more than 7,000 Entergy Louisiana customers without power into the evening.    Businesses in the busy area were in the dark for roughly four hours, WBRZ-TV reports. Entergy told WBRZ-TV that lightning struck a recloser, a device meant to keep power flowing

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