Thousands in South Bay Still Without Power

High winds and heavy rain caused power outages affecting tens of thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Southern California Edison customers in Southern California, the utilities said Monday.

Power was out for more than 56,000 of its customers at one time, but by 9:30 p.m. Sunday power had been restored to all but 21,000, the LADWP reported. By about 7 a.m. Monday, power had been restored to all but about 12,000 customers, said Vonda Paige of the LADWP.

LADWP areas with the most customers affected include Larchmont, Koreatown, Wilmington and east Hollywood, Paige said.

Southern California Edison reported at 9 p.m. Sunday that it had restored power to approximately 10,000 of about 80,000 customers who lost power. Overnight figures this morning were not immediately available.

Some of the most-impacted areas included Long Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes Estates, Rolling Hills Estates and Carson, according to Edison.

In Orange County, Seal Beach was hardest-hit with 2,220 SCE customers affected, followed by Fountain Valley with about 1,500. Smaller outages were reported in Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove and Santa Ana, Edison said.

Almost 4,700 Edison customers in Riverside County also lost power, including in Palm Springs, Desert Hot Springs and Jurupa Valley.

--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock