‘Urgent safety repair’ cuts power to hundreds in SLO County
By Stephanie Zappelli
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A power outage cut off electricity to more than 300 San Luis Obispo County PG&E customers on Wednesday afternoon.
According to PG&E’s outage report map, 322 customers north of Creston near eastbound Highway 41 lost power around 3 p.m.
PG&E shut off the power in this area to perform an “urgent safety repair,” PG&E said.
PG&E did not yet know 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
