It\u2019s been a very hot weekend in San Diego and power outages reported across the county have left thousands of people without air conditioning.<\/p>\n
SDG&E said it\u2019s a rotating outage to maintain the overall stability of the electric system.<\/p>\n
People in Kearney Mesa just got their power back early today after more than 19 hours without it.<\/p>\n
The people we talked to say these power outages are not part of SDGE\u2019s Public Safety Power Shutoffs, which were put in place over fire-risk concerns due to extreme heat and wind concerns.<\/p>\n
They happened Saturday evening with little to no information from SDG&E as to why they were without power and when it would be restored.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past 35 years I\u2019ve had outages, but no more than four hours long. Today I have an outage going on 19 hours,\u201d Ana Brik said.<\/p>\n
Brik lives in Kearney Mesa. She\u2019s among many San Diegans who were left in the dark without power since Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t sleep all night because it\u2019s way too hot, it was in the 100s,\u201d Brik said.<\/p>\n
She wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n
Jose Garcia lives in Encanto. He said their neighborhood also experienced a power outage that started Saturday night and lasted into the morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entire night really hot,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n
Brik and Garcia weren\u2019t just worried about their comfort amidst this extreme heat.<\/p>\n
They also worried about their financial health and well-being.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have medicine that requires refrigeration. I one of my medications costs over $50,000 so I had to go buy ice and I have a cooler and I had to put my medicine in there and I\u2019m just hoping that my medicine is going to be okay,\u201d Brik said.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably picked up 300- 400 dollars\u2019 worth of groceries and coming back home and tried to store it and tried to keep everything cool, but no\u2026things have spoiled, it went on overnight, so we really couldn\u2019t keep a hold of anything,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n
Both said they tried getting in contact with SDGE.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot on the map, unplanned, and it was not listed for hours, and hours,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n
After multiple attempts, they were finally able to talk with a representative.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said, we can\u2019t tell you when it\u2019s going to come back on, but we\u2019re working on it,\u201d Brik said.<\/p>\n
Saturday morning, Brik and others still woke up without power. A frustrating situation that has some calling for more transparency from SDGE. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI know we are 19 houses and probably other people have outages but that doesn\u2019t mean we should get ignored. We pay taxes to live in this beautiful city and we deserve the service that we pay for,\u201d Brik said.<\/p>\n
Brik\u2019s power was restored and Garcia got his back too, but they worry it could happen again.<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, SDGE also cleared the Public Safety Power Shutoffs for the customers it notified that could be impacted.<\/p>\n
They said they will continue monitoring the ongoing period of extreme heat, as prolonged temperatures can increase energy demand and contribute to the outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a very hot weekend in San Diego and power outages reported across the county have left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,84,76,75,5094],"class_list":["post-485532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sdge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485532","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=485532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}