LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The flow of Louisiana residents back home Saturday continued by plane, bus and car as power was restored to thousands of Arkansans who were left in the dark after last week’s Gulf Coast hurricane became an inland storm.

By Saturday afternoon, Entergy Arkansas crews had restored service to all but 2,800 of their customers, and company spokesman David Lewis said he expected everyone would be back on line by Sunday. The majority of those without power—about 2,200 customers—were in Hot Springs, Lewis said. He said another 300 were in the Little Rock area, while the rest were scattered throughout the state.

At the peak of the outages, some 95,000 customers of Entergy Arkansas, the state’s largest electric company, were without power. Another 40,000 served by electric cooperatives also lost electricity last week, but the co-ops said power would be restored within that day.

“We’ve got a lot of people working on this and they’re just going job to job, taking care of every broken pole, every severed power line,” Lewis said, adding that the company had about 1,600 workers repairing the damage and restoring service Saturday.

The downfall that began Tuesday dropped as much as a foot of rain in places before leaving the state Thursday. Wind gusts reached up to 40 mph. Rivers ran over their banks, and crops were flooded.

The National Weather Service said Saturday many rivers remained above flood stage: Petit Jean River at Danville, Fourche la Fave at Houston, the Cache River at Patterson, the White River at Augusta and Clarenden, the Ouachita River at Camden and Thatcher Lock and Dam, and the Saline River at Rye. It was raining in northern and northwest Arkansas and more rain was in the forecast for that region.

The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management was assessing storm damage, said spokesman Tommy Jackson. No estimates were available Saturday afternoon. Meanwhile, emergency officials expected all of the more than 5,000 evacuees who sought shelter at Fort Chaffee or in the dozens of emergency shelters that opened for them would be gone by Sunday, he said.