Weather causes 2,200 to lose power

BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER

For just more than one hour yesterday morning, 2,200 Santa Barbara residents on the north end of the city were without power, a Southern California Edison spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman said the outages were the result of two separate incidents, one at 10:10 a.m. that was caused by palm fronds and another at 9:06 a.m., the cause of which had not yet been determined.


In the latter incident, the spokeswoman said 131 customers were still without power at noon. She said the majority of residents impacted by the outages lived in the La Cumbre area above Highway 101.
The Sansum Clinic at 215 Pasetas Lane was also without power for a short time.
A Daily Sound reader said the healthcare provider was turning away patients during the outage as a result of not having backup generators.
“We don’t have backup generators,” said Paul Jaconette, Sansum’s chief administrative officer. “[We have] an emergency action plan that we put into place and our managers followed that procedure.”
Jaconette said patients do not spend the night at the facility, but noted that there is an outpatient surgery room located there, but no surgeries were underway when the outage occurred.