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Planned Power Outages Not Yet Over
Some customers who thought they'd be without power during a planned outage weren't. Here's what happened and what you can expect, as in another planned outage.
Some 3,5000 Edison customers expected to get through Friday night minus electricity.
Instead, about 1,400 of those customers who had been notified they would be part of a planned outage had power all night and into the morning, said Scott Gobble, Edison spokesman.
"It took us longer to do the portion we did," said Gobble of the updating work at a substation, the reason why power was to be shut down.
For the Southern California Edison customers who did experience the planned power outage, electricity was restored at 3, 7 and 7:45 a.m., before the 8 a.m. time they'd been told, said Gobble.
The 1,400 customers whose power was not interrupted during the Sept. 20-21 planned outage can look forward to another scheduled outage not yet determined.
"It will be of shorter duration," said Gobble, who said that outage will not affect any businesses downtown.
Friday night's planned outage did, with some businesses downtown reporting a power loss they'd been told they wouldn't have.
Gobble told Patch Monday, SCE is looking into the mixup.
Manhattan Beach Police Chief Eve R. Irvine said the city was "well-patrolled" during the outage and there were "no problems."
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