{"id":263413,"date":"2026-04-12T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263413\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:02:09","slug":"thousands-of-smud-customers-across-sacramento-lose-power-amid-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263413\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of SMUD customers across Sacramento lose power amid thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of SMUD customers across Sacramento lose power amid thunderstorms<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769020329_917_kcra.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"KCRA logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:45 PM PDT Apr 11, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThousands of SMUD customers are without power in Sacramento while thunderstorms hit the Valley, according to the utility&#8217;s website. More than 28,000 customers are impacted by widespread outages. SMUD has not listed a cause for the outages, but they are marked on the website as &#8220;unplanned&#8221;. The Arden and Florin areas are most heavily effected areas as of 7:30 p.m., combining for more than 17,000 customers without power.Restoration times for the different outages vary depending on location. See SMUD&#8217;s outage map here.  KCRA 3 has reached out to SMUD for more information. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of SMUD customers are without power in Sacramento while thunderstorms hit the Valley, according to the utility&#8217;s website. <\/p>\n<p>More than 28,000 customers are impacted by widespread outages. SMUD has not listed a cause for the outages, but they are marked on the website as &#8220;unplanned&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> The Arden and Florin areas are most heavily effected areas as of 7:30 p.m., combining for more than 17,000 customers without power.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration times for the different outages vary depending on location. <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.smud.org\/manage\/outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">See SMUD&#8217;s outage map here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>KCRA 3 has reached out to SMUD for more information. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/get-kcra-news-on-the-go-download\/44039145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download our app<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of SMUD customers across Sacramento lose power amid thunderstorms Updated: 7:45 PM PDT Apr 11, 2026 Editorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,23615,115576,5936,671,7839,4842,4840,121,123,122,22778,57209,669,3293,13498,2734,3660],"class_list":["post-263413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-app","tag-download","tag-florin-area","tag-location","tag-more-coverage","tag-more-information","tag-outage","tag-power","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-smud","tag-smud-customer","tag-subscribe","tag-thousand","tag-thunderstorm","tag-top-california-story","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}