Boone Electric crews help restore power to 15,000 additional Louisiana residents this week

Columbia-based Boone Electric continues to make progress restoring power in hurricane-damaged Baton Rouge.

Boone Electric says electricity has been restored to an additional 15,000 Baton Rouge-area residents this week, leaving about 4,600 without power.

They also say that rain from Hurricane Nicholas has slowed progress, adding that the terrain they’re working around is tough.