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Damaged pole causes cuts power for more than 3,000 in SLO County

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Power was restored for more than 3,000 PG&E customers in southern San Luis Obispo County after it was first cut by a damaged pole Tuesday morning.

According to PG&E’s outage center, 3,044 customers lost power at 8:19 a.m. The utility company said crew members found a damaged power pole and was making repairs.

The outage was focused in Oceano, with most of the effected customers east of Front Street, south of Farroll Avenue, west of The Pike and north of Cienaga Street, the outage map showed. Some customers from Elm Street to Halcyon Road on both sides of Cienaga Street were also impacted, the outage map showed.

Power was restored by 10:30 a.m.

Power Outages in San Luis Obispo County and California

This map shows current California power outages and is automatically updated every 15 minutes. It shows the total number of customers impacted by county (in black), the general location of the outages with red (not planned) and orange (planned) circles, and more detailed power outage areas from PG&E when zoomed into the map (other utilities are not available for power outage areas). Tap on the locations for the number of customers affected and estimated power restoration in the left-hand column.

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SOURCES: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas and Electric, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Los Angeles Water & Power, ESRI

Steve Wilson swilson@star-telegram.com

This story was originally published December 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM.

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