Power Outage in Santa Barbara
SoCal Edison trucks responding to power outage (Photo: John Palminteri/KEYT News
Photo: John Palminteri / KEYT News
By Scanner Andrew
About 4,800 customers affected, power outage near the downtown area.
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Jul 07, 2021 05:26 PMMy power went out, but is now back on. Edison still has it on the outage map with 4,800 customers, still determining the cause of the outage.
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Jul 07, 2021 05:35 PMApparently also affected Westside and Eastside neighborhoods
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Jul 07, 2021 05:39 PMNow the number has dropped to just over 1,800 customers
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Jul 08, 2021 12:19 AMThank you for this info. There are so many people, that, literally, get left in the dark with no information and worse, no confirmation.
Here's source to check.. https://www.sce.com/outage-center/check-outage-status
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Jul 08, 2021 04:15 AMPrepare for more power outages as Summer demand increases while hydroelectric capacity decreases. Half of Hoover Dam power goes to CA and it is only operating @ 66% generating capacity due to low water. The Oroville Dam hydro plant will like;y shut down completely for the first time due to low water. Evenings when the PV arrays shut down will likely be the most problematic.
My 93 year old mom sleeps with a CPAP machine that needs electricity. We'll look into some kind of battery back up. Has anyone else done this?
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Jul 08, 2021 09:20 AMWe bought a Maxoak CPAP battery so we could take the CPAP camping. It cost about $300 and lasts only about two nights. Takes several hours to recharge. Maybe there are better ones now—we bought ours a few years ago.
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Jul 08, 2021 09:21 AMYou make a good point, lots more outages are on the way. More and more people are now relying on home generators to take up the slack during the increasingly frequent outages. It’s kind of ironic that the push for “green” energy is resulting in a shift towards gasoline and diesel power generation at home.
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Jul 08, 2021 09:53 AM@9:20- Thanks for the helpful advice.
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Jul 08, 2021 11:13 AMSome of the most fanatical Montecito "green" people have diesel generators because natural gas will be broken in an earthquake.
The move to lithium battery packs is in response to this, but lithium battery production from mining to final product is a heavy polluter... it just happens overseas or out in the mine.
A super inefficient way to power something like a CPAP in an emergency would be an inverter you can attach to the battery of your car/truck and no one cares about the inefficiency if a life is at stake