on after the wind event is over, sometime midday tomorrow, they don t just flip a switch and turn the power back on, they have to go out and physically inspect all of those lines to make sure if a limb has come down on one of those lines, they ve clear that, make sure everything is okay. they started turning off power in the sierra foothills around 2:00 this afternoon. places like the peninsula, they could be impacted. overnight stly. but as you said, it takes time to get it back up and running. they can t just turn it back on. we could have another wind event, possibly over the weekend. yeah. sunday looks a bit dicey at this point. so we ll have to see about that. and it s so interesting, isn t it, that they can flip the power off no problem but turning it back on is a little more challenging because they don t want to just turn it back on in the event that a line has been damaged in the wind. that defeats the purpose of the power shutoff. if you then risk some kind of fire dang
Southern California Edison is considering a Public Safety Power Shutoff in the eastern area of the City of Santa Barbara and into parts of Montecito due to an increased risk of wildfires.