MOST VALLEY HOMES HAVE POWER BACK 7 PYLONS FELLED BY STORM.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Electricity was back on Tuesday at most of the thousands of homes and businesses blacked out by Monday's powerful storm, but crews were still repairing seven 200-foot-tall power pylons Noun 1. power pylon - a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists" pylon tower - a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building collapsed by gale-force winds. Power had been restored to all but about 400 Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley homes and businesses by dawn Tuesday, and by midafternoon the outages had been reduced to fewer than 100. ``They worked all night. They're continuing to work all day,'' Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. spokeswoman Alis Clausen said of repair crews, who were brought in from as far away as Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. . Edison officials said Monday that one pylon pylon (Greek: “gateway”) In modern construction, a tower that gives support, such as the steel towers between which electrical wires are strung or the piers of a bridge. carrying a 500,000-volt power line had collapsed near Avenue J and 90th Street West in winds estimated by the National Weather Service at 60 mph. But Edison officials later discovered that actually seven pylons went down: four on the Midway Vincent No. 3 line north and south of Avenue K near 90th Street West, and three more south of Palmdale on the Lugo-Vincent 500,000-volt line near Pearblossom Highway at the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . Officials had no estimate of how long it would take to replace the towers. But they were able to reroute power to electrical substations so the only outages remaining Tuesday were due to problems in individual or neighborhood lines. More than 150 Edison workers were on repair jobs Tuesday, Clausen said. For the second day, Juniper Intermediate School in Palmdale was without electricity, so students were sent home shortly after 11 a.m. ``They had no power, no heat,'' Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. spokesman Isaac Barcelona said. Edison officials predicted power would be back on today at the school, Barcelona said. The storm was the most powerful to hit the Antelope Valley since the El Nino winter of 1997-98. It dropped 0.55 of an inch of rain Monday on Palmdale, and an additional 0.21 of an inch by midafternoon Tuesday. That brought the valley's rainfall total to 1.15 inches since October, down from 1.39 inches by this time last year. Hail fell Tuesday around the Antelope Valley, and the snow level was predicted to lower to near 4,000 feet today. Mountain High ski resort near Wrightwood reported that it got four to six inches of snow Monday. Snow shut down Tehachapi-Willow Springs Road between Mojave and Tehachapi on Tuesday afternoon. The Weather Service predicted that a new storm, possibly stronger than Monday's, would arrive in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, late Thursday. Forecasters said wet weather was expected to remain over the Southland south·land or South·land n. A region in the south of a country or an area. south  land·er n.Noun 1. into next week. The chance of rain was estimated at 60 percent Thursday and 70 percent Thursday night in the Antelope Valley. Snow was predicted to fall above 5,500 or 6,000 feet. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Edison crews work to repair one of seven support pylons damaged during Monday's storm. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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