WIND WANES, 2 REPORTED DEAD.Byline: Eric Wahlgren and Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writers The two-day windstorm wind·storm n. A storm with high winds or violent gusts but little or no rain. windstorm A storm with high winds or violent gusts but little or no rain. that raked the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. region finally subsided Tuesday afternoon, leaving at least two people dead, hundreds of trees toppled and thousands of residents without power in its wake. 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. branded the tempest - which brought winds gusting up to 99 mph in the hills above Pasadena on Monday - the second worst in the utility giant's history. More than 900,000 Edison customers suffered at least momentary blackouts as the winds whipped through the Southland on Monday and Tuesday. The company's biggest storm on record was in 1983, when more than 1.3 million homes experienced temporary power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
``It's been a mess,'' said Edison spokeswoman Cathy Sedlik, adding that 50,000 residents were still without power Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. reported 90,000 outages during the two-day storm. The DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection outages mainly were in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. - including such communities as Sun Valley, North Hollywood, Sylmar, Pacoima and Sherman Oaks. By 1 p.m. Tuesday, the number of customers without power was 15,400. Six people managed to flee a home in Azusa that caught fire when a tree crashed into a power line shortly after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. Despite the residents' close call, officials reported that the winds actually wreaked the most havoc Monday. Pacoima resident Albert Slattery died of a possible heart attack and internal bleeding after a more than 60-foot-tall tree fell onto the 55-year-old heavy equipment operator at about 9 a.m. Monday at a ranch in Shadow Hills, authorities said. Police also linked the death of 41-year-old Patricia Hendley of Hollywood to the winds, which knocked out the power to traffic signals at a North Hills intersection where her car collided with another vehicle at 10:10 p.m. Monday. The National Weather Service reported Tuesday that the winds had slackened, with the highest gusts clocked at 50 mph in the mountains and 35 mph in Valley areas. Weather specialist Stuart Seto said the winds were expected to drop even more, to less than 30 mph in the mountains and 15 miles per hour at lower elevations by today. The city's Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
Crews continued to clear debris across the region as part of a massive cleanup effort while thousands of residents struggled to make do without electricity. At the Sherman Way Senior Housing in Van Nuys, senior and disabled residents said Tuesday afternoon that power to the 74-unit residence had been cut off for more than 15 hours. ``The hallways are dark. The residents can't go out,'' said the residence's manager, who asked that her name not be used. ``Their food in the refrigerator is spoiling.'' Ed Freudenberg, a spokesman for DWP, said Tuesday afternoon that the utility was restoring power ``as quickly as possible.'' Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. officials reported that the one school - Charles Maclay Middle School and Primary Center in Pacoima - that was closed Tuesday because of the winds would reopen today. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Michael Trujillo of Mission Hills lost several trees to the high winds that whipped the area Monday and Tuesday. Bob Halvorsen/Daily News (2) A CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan officer checks the scene of a Glendale crash Tuesday blamed on knocked-out traffic lights. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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