. the storms resulted in widespread power outages , significant damage to distribution , transmission , and generation infrastructure , and the loss of sales during the power outages . in october 2008 , entergy gulf states louisiana drew all of its $ 85 million funded storm reserve . on october 15 , 2008 , the lpsc approved entergy gulf states louisiana 2019s request to defer and accrue carrying cost on unrecovered storm expenditures during the period the company seeks regulatory recovery