Power out for an unprecedented 300k Oregonians after weekend storm. Still unclear when full power will return. Updated Feb 16, 2021; Posted Feb 15, 2021 Ice damage and downed tree branches at SE 70th and Carlton in Portland on Feb. 15, 2021. Facebook Share In the pantheon of Portland area weather events, this weekend’s snow and ice storm wasn’t the biggest, longest or coldest. But by one important yardstick – the number of people who lost power, and potentially the duration of those outages – this weekend’s storm appears to be an unprecedented doozy. At their peak, Oregon’s two largest electric utilities, Portland General Electric and PacifiCorp, had well over 300,000 combined customers without power, a significant driver of Gov. Kate Brown’s decision to declare a state of emergency on Saturday.