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UPDATE: Hundreds Lose Power in San Mateo Thursday Night, Friday Morning

Affected areas included the Hillsdale Shopping Center.

UPDATED 10:04 A.M.: 

PG&E spokesperson Jason King told Patch the cause of the outage that occured around 8:34 a.m. Friday in San Mateo near Highway 92 and U.S. Highway 101 between E. Hillsdale Boulevard and El Camino Real was determined to be a tree that fell on a power line.

King said power is expected to be restored to the 118 affected customers in San Mateo by 1:30 p.m. Friday.

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Hundreds of residents lost power in San Mateo on Thursday night, and PG&E crews were still working Friday morning to restore power to at least 100 customers.

The first of two outages came at 6:27 p.m. Thursday, leaving 142 customers without power. PG&E crews estimated their power would be restored by 1 a.m., PG&E spokeswoman Jana Morris said.

The second outage affecting 662 customers started at 8:55 p.m., and PG&E estimated power would be restored to those customers by 2:45 a.m.

At about 8:34 a.m., an outage affecting 118 customers was reported in the areas around state Highway 92 and U.S. Highway 101, between East Hillsdale Boulevard and El Camino Real.

The same area, which includes the Hillsdale Shopping Mall, was the same spot outages were reported Thursday night, said PG&E spokesperson Jason King.

Power lines came down in San Mateo on Thursday night, potentially due to heavy winds, King said, although the cause of the 8:34 a.m. outage was not yet known.

Patch will update this story as more information becomes available.

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.

 

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Bren May 19, 2013 at 06:49 pm
I see that I meant to type "...that connect us to the past," but I accidentally typedRead More "...and connect us to the past." I think my meaning came through, though. Yes, the world does not need another national chain retail store or restaurant, which is surely what they're planning to put in there.
CP May 19, 2013 at 02:22 pm
Yes Bren, agree with you....good point.....really what it seems to come down to is money vs. theRead More good of the community and richness of traditions. And all despite the Master Plan for that site in San Mateo that seems to require an ice skating rink or similar recreational facility AT THAT SITE, and all despite the fact the Ice Chalet would like to continue operations there. The Developer has made it difficult to impossible for any ice rink to operate there (tricky it seems)....so they can get a cookie cutter retail outlet in ? .....very, very sad for the youth of the community.
Bren May 17, 2013 at 10:09 am
I think the issue is much larger than whether children will experience stress. That ice rink is aRead More local institution, dating back at least to when Fashion Island was there. It's terrible for communities to lose so many landmarks and connect us to the past.
Anita Reimann April 29, 2013 at 11:43 am
Dear Ari, Thank you for your service to our community. It's wonderful that you are already making aRead More difference.