A power outage that began about 2:45 p.m. has left over 1,800 without electricity from Whitethorn to Petrolia from the coast to Garberville, according to the PG&E Outage site.
PG&E says they are investigating the cause. They are giving 7 p.m. as the estimated restore time. Those are usually not based on information about the real conditions but based on their normal time to deal with an outage in that area.
UPDATE 4:07 p.m.:
According to Deanna Contreras from PG&E, PG&E crews are working safely and as quickly as possible to restore power to approximately 1569 customers who are without electricity right now.
The outage started at around 2:45, impacting at total of 1700 customers in Garberville, Petrolia, Redway, Whitehorn, Carlotta, and Honeydew. Crews were able to restore power to 131 customers at about 3:15. We are still looking into the cause of the outage. Right now the estimated time power will be restored is about 7pm but that time could change.
This article appears in Dinner from the Dock.
