In the suit, which the lawyers say was fax-filed this weekend, the plaintiffs allege that Entergy created a system that could not and would not sustain even a minor hurricane with wind gusts at or below 100 MPH. The suit alleges that Entergy made the decision to not invest in the underground transmission of electricity, which in an environment like Southeast Louisiana, could have assured regular, consistent, and sustained protected service to all their customers, not just in affluent neighborhoods.
Instead, Entergy chose "the bubble gum and super glue approach to protect their billions of dollars over the welfare of their customers, because Entergy knew that whatever damages were sustained during a storm could be quickly billed back to its customer base ," the plaintiffs allege.