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Many of the outages appear to be on the Westside (my house included). The wires are quoting a DWP spokeswoman as saying that the outages could last anywhere from eight to 10 hours (though I wouldn't hold anyone to that). Lots of fallen trees, downed live wires - the usual for this kind of wind storm. Venice, Northridge, west Los Angeles, Westwood, Westchester, Chatsworth, Palms, Silver Lake and San Pedro are among the areas hit. KNBC
*Update: LAT reports that about 27,000 L.A. residences and businesses were without power this morning. Sounds like this might take a while. Curiously, there's nothing at all on the DWP Web site about the progress of getting power restored.
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.