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A power outage cut off electricity to 519 PG&E customers in San Luis Obispo County on Thursday afternoon.
According to PG&E’s outage report map, customers in the Oceano and rural Arroyo Grande area lost power around 2:18 p.m. The outage area included the Oceano Airport, according to the map.
PG&E said crews would investigate the cause of the unplanned outage and make the necessary repairs.
PG&E did not yet have an estimate for when power would be restored.
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.
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
Sadie Dittenber writes about education for The Tribune and is a California Local News Fellow through the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Dittenber graduated from The College of Idaho with a degree in international political economy.
