Sunday, September 21, 2014

California Heat Knocks Out Electricity for Thousands of Los Angeles Residents

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The heat this week in Southern California got pretty unbearable.  With multiple days over 100 degrees in Temecula Valley, to the northwest in Los Angeles County the heat got so back that it knocked power out to thousands of customers.

On Tuesday, power was out for about 7,000 customers throughout Los Angeles County, including about 3,000 in the city of Los Angeles.

Southern California Edison officials said the utility reached its year-to-date consumption of 23,055 megawatts on Monday, just shy of its all-time weekday peak of 23,303 on Aug. 31, 2007.

Overnight, outages were also reported in Brentwood and Sherman Oaks.

SCE replaced 245 transformers between Saturday and Tuesday morning.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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