In the Santa Cruz Mountains the damage to P.G. & E. equipment was (and is) considerable and still being assessed. Due to the extent of the wind damage observed, plus access issues caused by fallen trees, damaged homes, downed power lines and poles, and debris blocking roads, some PG&E customers will experience outages that will last several days.
PG&E has 64 crews on-site and is adding 11 more today from out of the area to support restoration efforts in Santa Cruz County. They are methodically traversing the Camp Evers circuit, making repairs and restoring portions of the circuit as they can. As a result, restoration will be gradual versus all at once.
In Aptos, some customers will be restored tonight, while others who live where damage is more significant, will have their power restored late into the night tomorrow or over the weekend. This situation applies for all other cities in Santa Cruz County due to the extensive damage that needs to be remedied.
So far the damage they have found in Santa Cruz County is to:
- 147 spans of conductor (primary, secondary, services)
- 60 crossarms
- 32 poles
- 27 transformers
- 77 miscellaneous overhead electric equipment
As of 11 a.m. today, about 9,205 customers are without of power in Santa Cruz County. Of those, PG&E estimates it will be able to restore about 75% of customers by the end of the day Friday. The remaining customers will be restored over the weekend.
