LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – With tens of thousands of Lake County residents still out of power due to a public safety power shutoff implemented on Saturday, Pacific Gas and Electric said it intends to go forward with another weather-driven shutoff starting early Tuesday morning.

The company reported after 11 p.m. Monday that that it was going forward with the new shutoff ahead of a red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service that's due to go into effect at 8 a.m. Tuesday and continue until 4 p.m. Wednesday.

For Lake County, the shutoff is expected to be implemented at around 7 a.m. Tuesday, but the times could be earlier by at least a few hours based on past experience with the company's shutoff process.

Lake is among 29 counties with a total of 596,000 customer accounts PG&E said it expects will be impacted.

In Lake County, the specific customer number is approximately 37,441, with 2,170 medical baseline customers – the exact numbers impacted by the shutoff that started this weekend and essentially all of the county's population.

PG&E said that as of its Monday night report 554,600 customer accounts, or 57 percent of the 970,000 accounts it turned off power to over the weekend had power restored.

On Monday evening, nearly 400 Lake County residents replied to an impromptu poll on the Lake County News Facebook page about power restoration. A review of the responses found no reports of power restoration.

That agreed with information provided on Monday evening from officials with the county of Lake, who said they had no reports of power restoration for county residents.

The likelihood going into the next event is that many customers won't see power restored, or that it will be on for a very short time before the Tuesday morning outage is implemented.

An “all-clear” to begin inspections for damaged power equipment may not be given until Wednesday morning, according to local officials, meaning that power could remain out in parts of the county until Friday or later in some remote areas.

The planned outage prompted all of Lake County's school districts to announce that classes on Tuesday were canceled.

PG&E will have three community resource centers available for people to get water, charge devices and use wifi during the outages, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the following locations: Clearlake Senior Community Center, 3245 Bowers Ave.; Konocti Vista Casino, 2755 Mission Rancheria Road, Lakeport; and Upper Lake Unified School District, 725 Old Lucerne Road.

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