How to resolve AdBlock issue?
The National Weather Service in Sacramento had issued advisories for wind and winter weather throughout Tuesday for Lake County and numerous other areas of the state.
In Lake County, the winds appeared to pick up in the evening, with power lines reported to be down in Nice at Lakeview Drive, Buckingham Way in Kelseyville, Schindler at Fourth and Fifth streets in Clearlake Oaks, and Highway 20 near Ceago outside of Lucerne, according to radio reports.
The wind also was reported to be knocking down trees, California Highway Patrol reports showed.
Wind was carrying debris across area highways, and at one spot along Highway 20 in Nice an awning from a home was scattered across the road, causing a hazard.
What followed were numerous power outages affecting homes all over the county, with Pacific Gas & Electric estimating that as many as 6,100 customers may have been affected at one point.
The outages began in Clearlake at about 7:30 p.m., and followed in Clearlake Oaks about an hour later, with additional blackouts reported in Cobb, Lakeport, Lucerne, Nice and Upper Lake at about 9 p.m. and afterward, according to PG&E.
The power for many of those customers had been restored by about 11 p.m., although PG&E spokesman JD Guidi said 350 Upper Lake residents as well as about 20 Clearlake Oaks customers had not yet been restored by that point.
Guidi said at that time outages continued in the East Bay.
PG&E's online outage map showed that the power failures were continuing around the region on Tuesday, including in Sonoma, Santa Rosa and Calistoga.
The National Weather Service issued an overnight wind advisory for Lake County that warned of wind gusts as high as 50 miles per hour over ridges above 2,000 feet.
The agency also reported that a series of cold weather systems moving down from the Gulf of Alaska are expected to bring cooler temperatures and chances of precipitation to Northern California through the weekend.
E-mail Elizabeth Larson at
