Over 21,000 PG&E customers were without power just after 3pm on Wednesday, May 7, after a car hit a transmission pole near the corner of Los Coches Avenue and Natividad Road, according to a PG&E spokesperson.
Crews were on the scene to assess the damage. As of 4:30pm, the PG&E outage map was showing a restoration time of 5:45pm.
The pole carried a transmission line that provides power to customers in Salinas and elsewhere in the county. The outage map showed parts of Carmel Valley and Big Sur were also out.
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How is it possible that a single power pole at a busy intersection along Natividad could be designed so it's possible to +crash into it and take out 21,000 customers, putting perhaps 60,000 people in the dark? Is this the electric system we're being asked to rely on, to switch to and disconnect gas service?
Could our electric utility design a less reliable system?
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