Skip to Content

PG&E prepares for wind and rain in San Luis Obispo

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - PG&E is staffed and ready for the wind and rain this week.

There were sunbeams in people’s windows early this morning, but now we’ve got gray skies and shiny pavement.

It's not the warmest day the Central Coast has ever seen – the clouds have rolled in, the skies are dark, and windshields began to reveal the water droplets just after lunch.

And there's been a lot of wind.

Local PG&E officials have issued alerts and sent out their workforce to anticipate circumstances that could lead to outages, or worse.

For now, the main concerns are both the rain and the wind.

Over time, especially through long spells of dry, hot weather like we've had recently, sedimentary buildup on the power boxes, transformers, and cabling on phone poles all around us everywhere, can create unfavorable circumstances when multiple conditions arise such as high winds as well as rain.

The company wishes to assure the public that staffing has been scheduled accordingly and multiple contingencies are being taken into account.

“Here at PG&E, we want to make sure that everyone is safe. And that includes our customers and that also includes our coworkers.  So give them time. If you do experience an outage and it's during a storm like this, we need to ensure that our coworkers are safe, too, to be able to assess the issue and then go out and then resurrect the issue and then turn your power back on,” says PG&E spokesperson Neil Hebert.

Officials remind the public that there are tens of thousands of miles of cabling above our heads all around us, and they’re all connected to each other.

So an incident in one place can cause problems in another location.

Remember if you encounter a downed power line, stay as far away from it as you can, and call 911 to notify authorities.

Article Topic Follows: Environment & Energy

Jump to comments ↓

Jarrod Zinn

BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION

News Channel 3-12 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.

Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by clicking here

If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it here.

Skip to content