LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER & POWER
Saturday, September 22, 2007
 
RAIN & LIGHTNING STORM OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF 8:30 AM 

Highlights:

• The violent rain and lightning storm knocked out power to approximately 25,000 customers as of 8:30 AM today - many from wires down most likely caused by lightning and in some cases auto accidents according to preliminary info.
• Weather permitting our 33+ crews in the field expect to make significant progress in restoring affected customers who are almost entirely on the METRO side of the city.  The Valley was left in very good shape as of this AM with less than 500 customers affected.  
• Hardest hit area is South LA, accounting for more than half of the total outages.
• Most of the outages are circuit or partial circuit outages, with another 130 single customer outages scattered elsewhere.   
• Our crews are working as safely and as fast as they can to restore power. 

DETAILS:  

Circuit Outages
Metro - 11 affecting 15,762 customers
Valley - 0

TOTAL - 15,762
Neighborhoods Affected:South LA, Monterey Hills, Hyde Park, El Sereno, Crenshaw, Eagle Rock

Partial Circuit Outages (larger outages affecting more customers all on part of a single circuit:
METRO - 9  partial outages: 7857 customers
Valley -  1 partial circuit outages: 293 customers
TOTAL:  partial outages: 8150 customers

Partial circuit outage neighborhoods include: South LA, Koreatown, Westwood, Bel Air Estates, Sun Valley  

Neighborhood Outages (Small localized outages affecting single customers or small groups of customers) 

Metro Neighborhood Outages (small localized): 14 localized outages affecting 1697 customers 

Valley Neighborhood outages:  1 localized outage affecting 24 customers

Neighborhood outages total: 15 affecting approx 1700 customers