About 4,500 Entergy customers were still without power Monday, 24-hours after severe weather moved through the state.

By late Monday afternoon, about 1,400 hundred customers in Little Rock were still waiting to get their power back on. The number was closer to 600 in Danville, and 500 in Russellville. The rest are isolated cases scattered throughout the state.

Steve Hemmer and his family were at their Pottsville home when a powerful storm rolled through Sunday afternoon. His yard is now littered with downed power lines and huge trees, which fell on his house and smashed his daughter's car.

Hemmer is just thankful no one was injured.

(Steve Hemmer, Pottsville Resident) “So many people have been hurt in this area, and you just get to thinking about it. I was standing in that corner of the garage right there, and you just get to looking at how close it gets.”

While Steve surveys the damage, and works to clean up the mess Mother Nature left behind, he and thousands of other residents in Pope and Yell counties--and across the state--wait get their power back on.

Entergy says crews from across Arkansas and Louisiana have been brought in to help.

(Bruce Tucker, Entergy Spokesman) “We expect to have everyone on by the end of the day tomorrow, but there will probably be 1,500 still without power tonight.”

In Paris, Arkansas, a local electric company there says one of its workers was killed--and three others injured--while trying to clear debris from downed power lines.

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