About 132,000 remain without power in greater Portland Sunday morning
PORTLAND, Ore. — Roughly 132,000 customers in the Portland metro area are still without power as of early Sunday morning as the region wakes up to ongoing frigid temperatures the day after a winter storm that brought, high winds, snow, sleet and freezing rain.
Just after 6 a.m. Sunday, PGE's outage map showed there were still 3,102 outages impacting nearly 123,515 customers across the northwest part of the state.
Pacific Power reported 6,371 customers without power throughout the metro area and Clark Public Utilities reported 2,594 customers without power, also as of just after 6 a.m.
Pacific Power's map shows about 17,000 customers without power across all of western Oregon, with the biggest concentrations of outages in the Portland metro area, the Eugene metro area and the Lincoln City area on the coast.
On Saturday afternoon, in a news release, PGE said many of the outages are due to trees or branches falling onto power lines. PGE said nearly 400 workers are out assessing damage and restoring service.
"PGE is working to restore power as quickly and safely as conditions allow," the company said in the release. "Crew responses may be impacted by snow, high winds, road conditions or fallen trees."
What to do if you're without power
If your power is out, contact PGE if you haven't already. You can report a power outage or get an update through:
- Text updates: Log into your PGE account and make sure PGE has your contact information so they can provide updates via text message)
- Online: Visit portlandgeneral.com/outage to see PGE's outage map
- PGE app: Download the PGE app (Google Play Store | Apple App Store). Links are available at portlandgeneral.com/app.
PGE also provides the following advice for people currently without power:
- Contact 211 for warming shelter information or other assistance.
- See if you can stay with a friend or family member who has power.
- Be careful lighting candles as an alternative light source.
- Don't operate kerosene heaters or generators indoors. Without proper ventilation, they can generate harmful gases and deadly carbon monoxide.
- Lock in the heat in your home by tacking blankets over windows and doorways to keep the cold out. Put rolled towels at the bottom of doors to keep drafts out.
- Stay at least 35 feet away from fallen power lines and anything they are touching. Always assume a power line is live and energized.
Correction: A previous version of this article referred to people without power instead of customers without power. One customer could be multiple people in a household, so the number of people without power is much higher than the customer outage count.
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