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"Entergy said power was restored about 12:30 p.m. after an outage began Thursday morning in parts of the Warehouse District and the Central Business District.Entergy said underground equipment failed Thursday morning.The outage began about 9:38 a.m., according to Entergy's website.View images of the outage\"Once we isolated the issue and it was safe enough for our employees to repair the problem, we sent them in,\" said Entergy New Orleans Spokesperson Phillip Allison.The outage affected about 1,500 customers in those areas, Allison said.Many businesses without power were forced to close.\u00A0\u00A0One of the businesses impacted the most were restaurants due to not being able to provide lunch during the normal busy time for them.One of the restaurants, Desi Vega\u2019s Steakhouse on St. Charles Avenue, had employees sitting ready to do preparation work in the kitchen but weren\u2019t able to because of the power outage.The manager on duty said that losing the lunch crowd will definitely hurt their bottom line.Good Shepherd School, located at 353 Baronne St. in the CBD, dismissed school early on Thursday due to the outage.\"Parents are asked to make arrangements to pick-up their children as soon as possible,\" the school said in a statement. \"A message notifying parents of the situation has been sent out to parents through the school\u2019s 'School Reach' program.\"Firefighters were battled an underground fire nearby at Carondelet Street and St. Joseph Street before the outage was reported, but Entergy didn't say the fire was related to the outage.View images of the fireThe Sewerage and Water Board, in the 600 block of St. Joseph Street, said it was shutting down non-essential operations for the day due to the power outage.It plans on reopening Friday.Customers seeking to make payments would not be able to do so because the outage is affecting the SWB's computer system, the SWB said.The board said no one's water would be cut off Thursday as a result of the power outage.The outage also affected at least one New Orleans Saints player who had to miss his workout.Tight end Jimmy Graham said in a post on Twitter, \"Does anybody else not have power down in the warehouse district of New Orleans? My garage and gate wont open. So missing workout!\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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