2,100 Highland Park Residents Without Power Early Sunday

About 2,100 DWP customers in the 200 block of North Avenue 61 in Highland Park went without power for several hours early Sunday—and power outages are still occurring in a few areas of the city of Los Angeles, according to a DWP spokesperson.

The power in Highland Park was restored around 6 a.m. today, Maychelle Yee, a spokesperson in the DWP's public affairs office told Eagle Rock Patch, adding that no areas of Eagle Rock have been affected.

Yee said she wouldn't be able to ascertain before Monday just when the outage began, but that it was probably before 4 a.m. today. The loss of power was "most probably because of the stormy weather," she said, adding that the outage in Highland Park was "restored very quickly—our workers were out there in the storm making sure that they get power back to our customers."

Fortunately, the rains that are likely to continue in Los Angles for another few days are not the first of the season, Yee pointed out. "Usually it is the first rains and heavy winds that cause the outages," she explained. "But because we are already several rains into the season and the winds were not that hard—that's probably what saved us from a lot of outages."

Yee wasn't certain if traffic signals in Highland Park were also affected by the power outage. "Most likely the traffic signals went out if the power went out in the area," she said, adding: "Even though the power is restored, sometimes the Department of Transportation has to go out to the location to reset each signal light one by one."

Yee said a power outage in Sherman Oaks last night is "still occurring" because power cables in the area are underground and "a little more difficult" to get at. In addition to Sherman Oaks, about 1,000 DWP customers are currently without power in South L.A., Yee said.

But given that DWP serves some 1.4 million customers in the City of Los Angeles, the number of people affected by the outages since last night is miniscule, Yee said.