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More than 1,900 PG&E customers without power in SLO County

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More than 1,900 PG&E customers were without power Thursday afternoon during an outage in southern San Luis Obispo County, according to the utility company’s website.

The power outage affected the Pismo Beach area in the Pismo Oaks neighborhood along Highway 101 and extended east along Price Canyon Road to the homes around the Lopez Lake area and the Edna Valley near San Luis Obispo, according to PG&E’s outage map.

Power went out at around 3:41 p.m. Thursday and was expected to be restored at 7:15 p.m., PG&E’s outage website said.

The cause of the outage was unknown by 5 p.m. Thursday.

A PG&E outage knocked out power to about 1,900 customers from Pismo Beach to south of San Luis Obispo to beyond Lopez Lake on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.
A PG&E outage knocked out power to about 1,900 customers from Pismo Beach to south of San Luis Obispo to beyond Lopez Lake on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.
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Mackenzie Shuman primarily writes about SLO County education and the environment for The Tribune. She’s originally from Monument, Colorado, and graduated from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in May 2020. When not writing, Mackenzie spends time outside hiking and rock climbing.
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