West Hollywood, California (Thursday, October 29, 2009) - Wind storms kicking up late Tuesday that lasted through Wednesday morning – gusting up to 70 miles per hour – hit 870 West Hollywood homes and businesses hard. 
WeHo News. |
Southern California Edison’s media manager, Charlie Coleman, told WeHo news that wind damage caused three separate outages in the Creative City – all on the Westside in the Norma Triangle.
On WeHo’s Sunset Strip, the Roxy and Rainbow Room cleared their houses and shut down for the night after losing power.
Overall, Coleman said roughly 16,000 Edison customers lost power throughout the region.
Of the 870 customers blacked out by the damage to wires or transformers, Mr. Coleman said, emergency crews restored power to all but 11, isolated to Rangely Street.
Those 11 customers saw their power restored before Wednesday afternoon played out.
So far as infrastructure damage, or any wind-related public safety issues, West Hollywood Publics Safety director Kristin Cook said, "There were no major public safety issues with the wind. Some trees down and a few lights out."
Brooks Baker, Media Relations Manager for LADWP, said that while Edison serves West Hollywood, quite a few of his customers on West Hollywood’s borders felt impacts.
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