More than 1,000 lose power in Paso Robles, Cambria during early morning rain, wind event
PASO ROBLES, Calif. - More than 1,000 residents in Paso Robles and Cambria lost power suddenly early Wednesday morning as a winter storm system moved through the area.
The Pacific Gas & Electric website reported that between 1,299 buildings lost power starting at 3:41 a.m.
The outage zone appeared to span from the 101 at Union Road in the west to Golden Hill Road north of Highway 46 in the east.
PG&E said their preliminary investigations determined the outage was caused by weather in the area. No further details were available.
However, at 3:40 a.m., Paso Robles police responded to a downed tree on the 500 block of Creston Road--within the outage zone.
Crews said the tree fell into nearby power lines, but they were not able to confirm that the incidents are connected at this time.
PG&E reported a similarly sized outage started in Cambria around 2:51 a.m.
That outage was affecting 1,579 residents from Highway 1 to the beach.
PG&E crews remained busy through the early morning as several other outages popped up across North County, the majority of which were listed as being weather-related.
PG&E is recommending across the Central Coast to prepare for a power outage at anytime due to the weather. No Public Safety Power Shutoffs are scheduled at this time.
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We will update this story as more information becomes available.