UPDATE: Restoration in the area is now expected by 2:30 p.m.
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ORIGINAL STORY: A power outage Monday was impacting more than 170 PG&E customers in Santa Maria, including Santa Maria High School.
A district spokesperson told KSBY administrators were busy dealing with the outage. He added that school was still in session but estimated that by 10:30 a.m., several hundred students had been picked up by parents or guardians.
According to PG&E, the outage began shortly before 4 a.m. By 9:15 a.m., it reportedly spanned from South Depot Street to S. McClelland Street.
Restoration was expected by around noon. Crews were working to repair a downed powerline on Morrison Avenue although an official cause of the outage has not been released.
