Utility crews across California worked overnight to restore electrical service to customers left without power due to a storm lashing the region, officials said Sunday.
During the first wave of the storm Friday night and early Saturday, more than one million households in California lost power. In Los Angeles, about 50,000 households were affected by the power outage, said Kim Hughes, spokesman, of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
But all those outages were fixed as of 7 a.m. on Sunday, Hughes said.
"There are only a few minor individual jobs being completed, but all circuit and neighborhood outages from the first two have been restored," Hughes said.
Winds gusting up to 40 mph or more blew down trees and knocked down power lines across the region as the first wave of a Pacific storm produced about 1.5 inches of rain in most metro areas.
The storm grounded flights and overturned trucks as wind gusted to 80 mph during the second wave of the arctic storm that has sent trees crashing onto houses, cars and roads.
Preliminary rainfall totals in the valleys, foothills and mountains were considerably higher -- up to about 6 inches in the San Gabriel range just north of Azusa, according to the National Weather Service.
Source:Xinhua
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