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Goleta Power Outage
updated: Jul 25, 2012, 8:30 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

Do any readers know why the power has gone out twice in Old Town Goleta this Wednesday morning? 6:10 and 8:10 approx. I worry about leaving my computer on as this seems to be happening more frequently these days.

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COMMENT 301103	2012-07-25 08:41 AM
I'm near the Goleta Library and we also had the power outages. Each lasted only a minute or so but still.... What's up?
COMMENT 301113P	2012-07-25 09:02 AM
My friends live in the mobil home park and they said there power has been out since last night. They live in old town Goleta.
COMMENT 301136	2012-07-25 09:39 AM
there must have been a major surge because it fried our router even though I had it connected to a surge protector. We're in Old Town Goleta
COMMENT 301140	2012-07-25 09:49 AM
I called SCE and the recording indicated that they were trying to figure out the cause of the outage and that it should be restored shortly...
COMMENT 301155	2012-07-25 10:25 AM
it went out at 1:30am near the airport and didn't come back till 8:30am for me
BECKY	2012-07-25 03:30 PM
I'm no longer working in Old Town, so missed this outage. (Yeah!) We had regular outages over the 20 years I was there. I've talked to the Edison workers a couple times. "Old Town has some of the oldest lines and equipment any where around. They just added new parallel lines when they needed more, rather than upped the capacity and fixed it all. We're paying for those old decisions now." That's a shortened version of my conversation with them the last extended outage we had, where the outages hop-scotched around Old Town, with some of us out, and others not. The older buildings were the ones without power. Some day, I hope they actually redo most of the power to Old Town. Until then, buy UPSes and expect regular outages.
COMMENT 301348P	2012-07-25 05:33 PM
Mine went out about 2am for about 2 minutes and seems to have fried a monitor that was on a surge protector/UPS. I'm in Goleta, north of the freeway.
COMMENT 301374P	2012-07-25 06:23 PM
Wow! So many outages! On Ward Dr it went out at 3:10 am for a few minutes.
COMMENT 301522	2012-07-26 09:09 AM
1:09 Wednesday AM thru midnight plus, Thursday AM. Old Town off Tecolote. So that's 24+ hours. Actually rare (lifetime experience at this address) compared to what Becky remembers from her place on Hollister.

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