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Safety Report: Power Outage, Palo Alto, California, USA
1 year ago •source paloaltoonline.com
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Palo Alto, California, United States
Thousands of Palo Alto Utilities customers were without power early Tuesday morning after two storm-related incidents. The first outage in Palo Alto affected about 4,500 customers in the southern portion of the city after lightning struck a tree, which came down on power lines. The outage was reported at 2:12 a.m. Power was restored to about 97% of customers by 3:55 a.m. Another 54 customers in the city's Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood were also without power as of 7:12 a.m. Just before 7 a.m., more than 1,336 East Palo Alto residents were without power due to the rainy weather, according to PG&E. As of 10:55 a.m., the utility company's outage map showed service was restored to all but three customers.Palo Alto Utilities outage map: utccoutage.cityofpaloalto.org/maps/OutageWebMap/
PG&E outage map: pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/
Source: paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/01/10/power-outage-strikes-thousands-after-lightning-strike-downed-trees
Published: 2023-01-10
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