Residents Frustrated With PG&E As Sierra Power Outages Continue

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NEVADA CITY (CBS13) — Warming centers are providing comfortableness to hundreds of Nevada County residents inactive successful the acheronian – a airy of anticipation arsenic PG&E crews enactment to instrumentality power.

“I’ve hardly been capable to enactment successful interaction whatsoever,” said Galen Krumel.

Krumel has been moving retired of the Madeline Helling room successful Nevada City due to the fact that powerfulness has been retired astatine his location for 9 days.

“It’s large due to the fact that we person entree to powerfulness and WiFi arsenic opposed to trying to person calls from location implicit nary powerfulness successful the dark. It’s benignant of comical,” helium said.

What isn’t comic is the grade of the damage: hundreds of trees successful his adjacent neighborhood.

“So galore trees down and powerfulness poles broken. It’s expansive,” Krumel said.

PG&E has had 1,200 linemen – and crews from different jurisdictions – moving astir the timepiece since Christmas to reconstruct power, but thousands are inactive successful the dark.

“We were counting poles that are truthful atrocious you could instrumentality a fig 2 pencil done them,” said 1 antheral who was besides walking into the warming center.

Many accidental PG&E has failed to bash the due attraction for years. They had hoped it would beryllium amended aft the tribunal rulings and bankruptcy pursuing the Camp Fire, but galore accidental it hasn’t.

“I consciousness similar I’ve learned much connected Facebook than from PG&E themselves,” said Krumel.

With thousands inactive without power, the region is moving to bring firewood and propane to those successful need. Snacks and supplies, including artillery chargers, are besides being offered wrong the library.

PG&E besides is providing h2o and snacks astatine the room and directing radical to different resources of the region for help.

“We person an extended vegetation absorption programme that assesses damaged trees and trims them,” a PG&E spokesperson said. “As for this latest tempest and the harm it caused: We recognize the frustration. We are moving to get powerfulness restored arsenic rapidly and arsenic safely arsenic possible. It’s been a situation owed to the entree issues and the magnitude of trees down.”

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As of Tuesday, immoderate 21,000 PG&E customers stay without powerfulness crossed El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties. More than 1,200 instances of harm to instrumentality has been recorded by crews, the inferior says.