Update: SMUD restores power to 16,000 in south Sacramento, says wind caused outage
More than 16,000 SMUD customers lost power Monday morning due to an unplanned outage, which SMUD later said was caused by wind blowing debris into a power line.
The outage affected customers in parts of south Sacramento and south Sacramento County starting just after 9 a.m., the utility said in a tweet. In a follow-up tweet at 11:13 a.m., SMUD said it restored power to all affected customers, and revealed the cause of the outage as “debris blown by wind into high voltage power lines.”
Weather forecasts call for heavy wind throughout Northern California on Monday, including Sacramento, where gusts could reach as high as 40 mph.
SMUD’s online outage page is available on its website, at www.smud.org/outages. The outage page shows the power outage started at 9:09 a.m.
This story was originally published November 25, 2019 at 9:30 AM.
