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From: Ring, Brian
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 6:42 PM
To: BOS
Cc: McCracken, Shari; Snyder, Ashley; Schuman, Amy
Subject: RE: 10.23.19 PSPS Event TUESDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE
Good evening all—
PG&E's weather team is still predicting this wind event to hit us late this Wednesday afternoon. Not much has changed
since the update this morning. I will be sure to keep you updated if I hear any new information.
Here are the current details (subject to change of course):
• Weather is still looking pretty consistent/no changes.
• 16 counties impacted (Kern county was added this morning—as they are now anticipating a stronger event in
the Southern CA region as well)
o De-energization will happen in three phases—as the winds are predicted to pick up at different times in
different regions
o Winds are anticipated to pick up Wednesday afternoon around 5:00pm in our region/Butte. De-
energization will likely start around 2:00pm on Wednesday for us.
• Approximately 190,000 customer impacted statewide (down from 209K yesterday)
• 8,335 Medical Baseline Customers (down from 9,000 yesterday)
• Customer notifications have gone out—PG&E are monitoring the Medical Baseline customer responses and will
send out personnel to houses for those individuals who did not respond (starting at 8:00am today/Tuesday)
• Restoration Update:
o PG&E is hoping to start to get all clear signs around 12:00pm Thursday
o PG&E is optimistically trying to get all power restored in 12 daylight hours after lines are
patrolled/inspected and cleared (by 7:00pm Friday unless there is damage in areas)
Butte County specific info:
• We are hearing our impacted customers are down to around 18,000 (from 23,000 customers yesterday), 1,339
Medical Baseline customers. The reduction appears to be in the Oroville and Thermalito areas.
• Similar region (from previous PSPS events) in the eastern foothills of the County
• We don't anticipate major impacts to County operations (specifically, operations on County Center Drive and
Mira Loma are not slated to be impacted)
• Three Customer Resource Centers are slated to be open (the two prior locations in Magalia—Lakeridge Court
and Oroville—Bird Street School along with a new location on Martin Luther King Blvd. Costco in Chico).
o Standard house of operation are 8:00am to 8:00pm—opening Thursday
o We have asked that these open up Wednesday afternoon for Butte County—and are optimistic this will
happen.
Virtual EOC is in operation at this point. There continue to be 3 update calls with PG&E each day; 7:30am, 12:30pm and
5:30pm. I'll keep you posted on any changes after each of these updates. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Brian Ring
Assistant Chief Administrative Officer
Administration
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25 County Center Drive, Oroville, CA 95965
T: 530.552.3311 M: 530.570.7688 I F: 530.538.7120
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