More than 3,500 Southern California Edison customers lost power Saturday in an outage that lasted well into Sunday morning.
The outage began at 7:51 p.m. Saturday along Pacific Coast Highway between Bonsall Drive and Latigo Canyon Road when some trees, likely knocked over due to high winds, came in contact with power lines and caused shortages, according to Caroline Aoyagi of Edison.
Southern California Edison was investigating the cause of the outage. Crews worked to restore power late into the night. Edison estimated power would be restored by 9:30 p.m., but that was later pushed to 12:15 a.m. and then to 7 a.m. Sunday.
By 7:10 a.m. Sunday, only 255 remained without power, but electricity was restored to most by 8 a.m., according to Edison.
"We have restored power to everyone except 11 customers on Bonsall Drive,'' Aoyagi said.
Power was returned to those 11 customers by 1 p.m. Sunday.
Some residents reported seeing a transformer send sparks into the air before the outage began.
A woman named April who lives off Kanan Road said over Twitter that a generator brought to her by Point Dume Pools kept her koi fish alive overnight.
"They made it," April said in a Tweet.
-Malibu Patch Editor Jessica E. Davis contributed to this report.
However, the battery began beeping 15 minutes before the power came back. How annoying, every minute a shrill set of beeps. Of course, the house is dark and the battery is behind a bookcase and there is no way to hunt for a reset button, if any. Grrrrr. Sprint voice and data service died with the power, but SMS messages would transmit and receive OK Remember that for the next disaster. Text messages will (sometimes) go through when nothing else will.
Its very important -- as Verizon/FioS promises to provide dial tone on traditional landlines (cable or copper) for 4-6 hours of blackout. They make no promises for FioS cable service, or Verizon cellphones. I am very curious why Sprint cell service died with the power, at least at Trancas. It seemed to be working at MHS.
Its very important -- as Verizon/FioS and Charter promise to provide dial tone on traditional landlines (cable or copper) for 4-6 hours of blackout. They make no promises for FioS cable service, or Verizon cellphones, or Charter cable service, or VOIP stuff like Vonage or Googlevoice. I am very curious why Sprint cell service died with the power, at least at Trancas. It seemed to be working at MHS. Also strange that SMS worked, voice didn't and email notifications were being trasnmitted by Sprint,but not the emails themselves. The difference between wired and weird is scant.
Wanna see a picture of the power pole they dug out at Zuma last week? 30 percent of it was hollow, filled with termite poop. I don't know what happened at Bonsall. It looked like branches into wires. Those things happen. Some hardworking IBEW men and woman worked in wind and darkness all night to fix it. Don't take that for granted, like you say. But what I have learned about SC Edison company practices and policies will scare the bejeebers out of you.
And thanks Hans for your tireless research and selfless hard work.
It was a VERY cold saturday night, and with out heat in our house it was not fun. not to mention all the food in the refridgerators and freezers, luckily it didn't defrost to much, but I made sure no one opened them, Yes it's time to invest in a generator This power outage was a wake up call for future problems. one of the really wierd things was that the new lights on the school grounds had thier smaller lights on all night, the ones that are about half way down. I wonder why they stayed on? But I was very happy when the power came back on at 7:30am in malibu park.
Edison needs to explain how half the city could be blacked out for 12 hours by one point of failure, if that was the case. Was there a cascading series of events? A series of coincidental simultaneous events? As for the high school, those little lights are emergency evacuation lights, apparently required by fire codes. They will come on whenever Edison blacks out. And they do not count against the number of hours that the field lights get to be used for school purposes.