More than 100,000 customers lost power across North San Diego County and South Orange County.

This was a localized outage—about 100,000 SDG&E customers in South Orange County (think Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel) and a sliver of north San Diego County. Not "California went dark," not hundreds of thousands statewide—just a chunk of suburbia blinking out around 9 p.m. last… pic.twitter.com/mZNql3wH7Q

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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) — A massive power outage left tens of thousands of people without electricity Thursday night across South Orange County and parts of San Diego County.

San Diego Gas & Electric reported that more than 100,000 customers were initially affected. Video taken near the Civic Center in Mission Viejo showed one of the areas impacted by the blackout. Other areas that were impacted included Laguna Hills and Laguna Niguel.

https://abc7.com/post/more-40000-people-power-south-orange-county/18784976/