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AllaN01Bear

(29,805 posts)
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 09:55 PM Mar 2021

wowzers , what a day.

PG&E crews are making progress on a massive power outage that hit the Mother Lode this morning. At the height of the outage, just over 29,000 customers in three counties (Stanislaus, Calaveras and Tuolumne) were without electricity that number has dipped to around 22,000. The remaining outages are in Tuolumne County stretching along Highway 108 from Sonora all the way past Strawberry. Impacted customers are in Sonora, East Sonora, Columbia, Tuolumne, Soulsbyvile, Twain Harte, Mi-Wuk Village, Long Barn, and the Strawberry area. this is in eastern california in the foothills. cookng a WARM DINNER . and then bed .

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leftieNanner

(16,170 posts)
2. Wow, that's quite an outage
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 09:59 PM
Mar 2021

My family used to have a cabin in Pinecrest. I would guess that it's out there too.

Such a beautiful area. Glad you are OK.

AllaN01Bear

(29,805 posts)
4. thanks . power in my district came back on just shy of 6 pm pacfic time .
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 12:48 AM
Mar 2021
sounds like a main feeder to the area went down with problems .

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