Power restored in Colusa County

Friday, Aug 7 2009, 11:39 am

Staff report

More than 12,000 residents in Colusa County and the surrounding area were in the dark for 35 minutes today when PG&E made repairs on the Cortina substation, west of Williams.

"In order to make the repairs safely, we had to de-energize a main transmission line," said PG&E spokesman Brian Swanson.

The outage affected Colusa, Maxwell, Williams, Arbuckle, Grimes, and College City residents, as well as people living and working in Sutter, Live Oak and Meridian in Sutter County.

Knights Landing, Dunnigan and Woodland were impacted in Yolo County.

The widespread outage began at 1:45 p.m. Repairs were completed and power restored by 2:20 p.m.

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The county employees went home early. That is a victory for all of us
Arbuckle - Aug 09, 2009 11:19:31 AM	Remove Comment


my granma was on her oxygen machine when power went out. She was 82.
alias - Aug 09, 2009 12:14:20 AM	Remove Comment


It was 35 minutes Get a grip Uless you were on an iron lung I hardly think it affected anyones life other than a slight inconvience.
ben - Aug 08, 2009 12:24:29 PM	Remove Comment


Yes PGE could of not notified customers but if they had then the people of the County would prepare themselves for defending their home,store, etc. for potential burglars. LOL
County Resident - Aug 08, 2009 09:51:05 AM	Remove Comment


When I first read the article, I too, thought PG and E should have notified ppl. But then thought it some ppl knew the whole county wasn't going to have electricity at a certain time, they might commit crimes like rob a bank or store. I'm just glad it wasn't 110 degrees yesterday and the outage didn't last for hours.
Someone - Aug 07, 2009 12:52:14 PM	Remove Comment


12000 thats like the whole county lol
WHOLE COUNTY - Aug 07, 2009 12:05:47 AM	Remove Comment


Thanks for the notice.
williams resident - Aug 06, 2009 09:23:09 PM	Remove Comment


thanks pg and e for the notification
colusa resident - Aug 06, 2009 04:36:12 PM	Remove Comment


You'd think they could have had the courtesy to notify those 12000 people. It's not like electricity runs any important systems throughout the county. If it is an unexpected that's one thing, but this wasn't cool
that was not professional - Aug 06, 2009 02:31:46 PM	Remove Comment

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