More Than 1,000 Were Without Power In South Sacramento County
12 a.m. Update: By midnight, only a few dozen customers remained without power.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) — More than 5,000 SMUD customers were without power for over an hour in the Wilton/Herald area Wednesday night.
According to SMUD, the tree-related outage occurred at 8:26 p.m. Wednesday.
UPDATE: @SMUDUpdates crews have restored power to large #s of customers in rural south county. Outage there is tree-related. ~1100 of original 5000 still w/o power while work continues to restore. Heavy rain and lightning reported.
— SMUD (@SMUDUpdates) May 16, 2019
Approximately 5,000 customers were affected by the outage in the rural south county. The utility said around 1,100 remained without power at 9:30 p.m.
SMUD estimated the power would be restored by 9:35 p.m. but one-fifth of the customers still remained without power.