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Members of the City of Abbeville’s electrical crew are continually cutting and trimming tree limbs that are around power lines.
However, there are some areas where it is not safe for the city workers to cut. With that, the city has brought in a company, Global Energy Systems, to handle cutting around the city’s main, transmission lines.
“These are high voltage areas,” Abbeville Public Works Director Clay Menard said. “It can be very dangerous. This company is used to doing work like this.
“It is the same company that does Entergy’s work.”

History students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have created a podcast series that delves into historic flooding that inundated the state in August 2016.
The flood affected 56 of 64 parishes in Louisiana. Thirteen people died.
In south Louisiana, more than 30 inches of rain fell during an eight-day period. The storms caused more than $8.7 billion in damage across 20 of the hardest-hit parishes.

State and federal enforcement agencies are receiving more complaints than ever about robocalls, which are commonly used in political campaigns as well as more shady business operations.
In turn, that is leading to action by legislatures around the country, according to reporting by PEW's Stateline. No part of that trend, however, can be found in Louisiana — yet.