Almost 300,000 customers still without power *

What's that, half a million people in the Los Angeles metropolitan area bedding down for a second night without electricity? The utilities are saying it could still be a couple of days before some people get their power back. The mayor of Temple City was just on TV saying his city remains mostly dark tonight. There's still a lot of untangling of downed power lines that has to occur there and along the San Gabriel Mountain foothills. Edison says it has about 188,000 customers without power, the Los Angeles DWP about 102,000. Here's the community breakdown for L.A. as of 11 p.m.:

EASTSIDE/NORTHEAST
Highland Park: 12,800
El Sereno: 11,400
Glassell Park: 10,800
Eagle Rock: 4,400
Lincoln Heights: 3,000
Cypress Park: 8,700
Griffith Park: 2,800

CENTRAL/DOWNTOWN
Hollywood: 2,500
Hollywood Hills: 5,300
East Hollywood: 6,700
Los Feliz: 5,100

WESTSIDE
Venice: 6,000
Westchester: 3,100
Playa del Rey: 2,500

SOUTH
Green Meadows: 3,000
West Adams: 2,000

* Update: Pair of tweets from the L.A. Fire Department.

LAFDtalk: From 6:00pm yesterday (11/30) to 8:00pm tonight (12/1) the LAFD has responded to 538 incidents w/ downed power lines. Be careful. -Matt

LAFDtalk: The LAFD averages about 1 of those in a "normal" 24 hr period.

Photo: Matt Hartman/UGC/CBS at CBS Los Angeles