Edhat Staff
As of Monday morning, SCE is monitoring areas of Santa Barbara County that may have their power cut due to the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS).
The areas expanding on Monday to include sections of Gaviota, Montecito, and Carpinteria towards Ventura.
Southern California Edison (SCE) may shut off power for an area of Santa Barbara County on Monday.
The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) sent an alert to residents that SCE might turn off power to unincorporated areas of Santa Barbara County between the cities of Goleta and Santa Barbara, starting from Paradise Rd down Turnpike Rd to More Mesa on November 25.
Approximately 4,188 customers could be affected.
To determine if you live or work in or near a potential outage area, visit sce.com/safety/wildfire/psps and input your address.
Residents are encouraged to make preparations for a possible multiple-day power outage lasting as long as 5-7 days and check on friends and neighbors to make sure they are prepared.
Those in the affected areas are encouraged to call SCE at 1-800-611-1911 with questions.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, wonderful. If the Grinch steals Christmas, I guess SCE can steal Thanksgiving.
I’m in the target area, as are the majority of my family members. Looking at warm Diet Coke and cookies for Thanksgiving. Yum.
I am in the potential shut off area and the conditions they are predicting happen all the time in my neighborhood. A quarter of the year it’s windy, warm/ hot with low humidity. If they shut the power down every time we experience these conditions SCE is going to lose a lot of customers to solar power. In the 50 years I’ve lived in this neighborhood, with all the wind, a fire has never been started from a power line issue only arson…
That’s awesome. We had a surprise outage last Saturday the 16th, which was reportedly a rush job of the 12 hour outage we were slated for yesterday the 23rd. Lost our power, which also knocks out the entire phone system for the whole area.. Then they went ahead and shut us off yesterday – for 12 hours – anyway, even after sending out notices that the outage had been cancelled. We’re on day two of no phones. Gosh, hope no one needs to call 911. Thanks Edison. Thanks Frontier.
Not to worry, the homeless out along highway 101 and the railway tracks will still be out there starting fires.
I’ve said it before…. We pay really high utility rates, and still these people (SCE) can’t get their s$&t together. WTF are they doing with all our money?
Edison and PG&E aren’t the underlying culprits behind recent fires. Electric infrastructure in California has always been located in undeveloped areas and forests. If you hike above SB you can find a few abandoned steel power poles that look at least 80 years old. There is no way these shorter lines going through the trees were safer than the ones we have now. Climate change is here whether people want to see it or stick their head in the sand. Either way, the tides and thermometers are rising.
Big weather this week, including heavy snow on #5, and will probably close. Expect traffic on #101, and hotel bookings up everywhere because people are stuck and unable to continue travel for Thanksgiving. I live near Puente/Hollister, and outside temp this morning (Sunday) at 7am was 40 degrees. I’m old. No heat this week, with cooler temps and rain. __WHO__ in our County of Santa Barbara is standing up for us. ANYONE?
Yeah. Because there sure won’t be any restaurants serving turkey dinners or even Chinese food, right?
Ah, a troll in the hood. It has nothing to do with that. In the 90’s the forward thinkers of the phone company decided to reline, after the Paint Fire, with fiber optic, rather than copper wire, which carries the current to power the phone system independent of the electric company. We were put on batteries instead, which promptly died and remained dead for nearly two decades. Frontier finally replaced the batteries several years ago, only to have them tapped out after the Whittier Fire. They are now totally dead. Not a ‘rural’ issue, and infrastructure issue. Nice try, though.
Maybe… Thanksgiving will be on a different day this year. I don’t need a calendar to give thanks.
I bought the wrong food for Thanks Giving I’m sticking to ramen from now on that way I’ll never be disappointed,
SCE is forced to invest in alternative energy development and electric car subsidies – paying for other people’s Tesla and Prius cars. If you are worried about paying for other people’s pensions, look no further than all your government workers -that debt is your grandchildren’s real burden; not “climate change”. Odd how interrelated these two issues in fact are – ignoring public pension debt but screaming loudly about climate change.
I thought power could only be turned off with sustained winds of 50mph or more , not simply wind gusts. Who made the power shut-off rules, and what are they?
Let’s join the homeless fireside for a true Thanksgiving Creative Feast. By Thursday, the frozen shrimp in my freezer will be thawed. I’ can bring 10 dozen shrimp and cranberry sauce with pop-top lids.
What? My entire neighborhood’s cables are buried: and power is often out. No need for EDISON to shut it off because transformer and other equipment so old and randomly function that power just goes out. Underground cables are no protection. We run our autos to keep phones charged. Have yet to find a reliable Solar phone charger. In Thomas Fire too much smoke interference.
And just what entity is responsible for the infrastructure?!!
I think the point you are making is that we have, historically, never had these intense and destructive fires with the frequency and loss that we have experienced in the last few years. This despite the presence of electric transmission systems for decades. The problem is drier forests and higher winds and people living in or closer to the fire zones. Blaming SCE or PGE is just searching for scapegoats to avoid our personal and community responsibility to deal with the world as it actually now is.
“hey guys, wanna piss some people off?” ::::: SCE officials flip a coin ::::::: ” Ok monday we do another power shut off warning, even though rain is forecast. This will really confuse them