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Thousands Lose Power In Beaumont Wind Storm
In the meantime, the city of Beaumont invited any affected residents to the Community Recreation Center.
BEAUMONT, CA — More than 2,500 people lost power in Beaumont on Tuesday morning, as strong Santa Ana winds whipped through the region. Southern California Edison reports that a total of 2,506 customers were affected in an outage reported at 8:50 a.m.
By 10:40 a.m., power had been restored to some customers, but 1,939 remained in the dark.
The outage was affecting those in the area of Brookside and Cherry avenues, according to the SoCal Edison Outage Map.
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The exact cause of the outage is under investigation. We've reached out to Edison representatives and will update this story as we learn more.
In the meantime, the city of Beaumont invited any residents to the Community Recreation Center on Oak Valley Parkway "to keep warm, charge their phones, and socialize during the power outag." That's located at 1310 Oak Valley Parkway.
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