by Carolyn Seitz
This morning a tree weakened by last week's damaging winds fell at about 8:15 AM, knocking out an Edison transmission line. Just under 5,000 customers in Altadena were without power. Within about 30 minutes power was restored to all but about 50.
As Edison works to repair the downed transmission line, you may experience intermittent power outages as they complete repairs and then re-energize the system and balance the distribution network.
We may continue to have these kinds of outages for a while, including today.
We are all also being cautioned that trees may continue to fall.
Please let me know if trees fall in your area. If they are in the parkway, LA County Public Works will take care of them. If trees fall on your property, unfortunately, it is your responsibility to deal with them.
If you see trees leaning or note that trees have fallen on utility lines, you may let me know or you can call Edison at 800 611 1911.
Currently, Southern California Edison's website indicates it will be down for maintenance tomorrow so we shouldn't rely on reporting outages through their website.
As a fallback, please let me know if you see trees impacting utility lines or see lines down.
If you find trees down on public roads, or parkway trees that have fallen or are leaning - about to fall, let me know.
As always - STAY SAFE!
Community volunteer Carolyn Seitz can be reached at cmseitz@mindspring.com
