New Power Outage Hits San Clemente

UPDATED: Sunday blackout ends early Monday. It affected 227 accounts in Talega.

Posted Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:28 pm PT|Updated Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:31 pm PT

Hundreds of San Clemente residents were left without electricity for much of Sunday and early Monday, officials said.

Power went out for 227 customer accounts in the Talega area at 8:50 a.m., according to San Diego Gas & Electric.

Service was initially expected to resume in the early afternoon, but SDG&E kept pushing the time back. The last estimate was 2 a.m. Monday.

SDG&E's website blamed the outage on "a combination of factors" that caused "a problem with underground electrical cable or equipment."

-- City News Service contributed to this story.

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