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Update at 11:15 a.m.: PG&E reports the lights are back on for more than half of the nearly 700 customers impacted in the Sonora and East Sonora areas of Tuolumne County. Their lights went out around 8:15 a.m. along Tuolumne and Wards Ferry Road. Crews have managed to restore the power to all but 259 customers along Wards Ferry Road. Their estimated repair time is 2 p.m. The utility has not posted a cause for the outage.
Original post at 9:24 a.m.: Tuolumne County, CA — Starting the weekend off in the dark and forgot the much-needed morning cup of coffee for nearly 700 PG&E customers.
PG&E is reporting the outage is in the Sonora and East Sonora areas of Tuolumne County. The outage began around 8:15 a.m. leaving around 682 customers without lights. Those without electricity are along both sides of Tuolumne Road after the Junction Shopping Center to Standard Road. It is also on both sides of Wards Ferry roads. The utility relays that crews are at the outage location and are assessing a cause. They added that the estimated restoration time is 11:45 a.m.
This post was last modified on 08/14/2021 11:15 am
Written by Tracey Petersen.
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