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Mono County pushes for clearer SCE communication, resiliency after multi‑day winter outages
Summary
County supervisors pressed Southern California Edison to improve local messaging and resiliency after a late‑December storm left parts of Mono County without power for days; SCE described transmission and distribution damage and said claims for business losses are handled case‑by‑case.
Mono County supervisors on Jan. 12 pressed Southern California Edison (SCE) and county staff for clearer, more localized communication and better contingency planning after late‑December storms left communities — including June Lake, Lee Vining, Mono City and Bridgeport — without power for multiple days.
“This was an outage whose duration was measured in days, not hours,” Supervisor McFarland said, urging SCE to provide a more detailed daily narrative to help residents and businesses make safety and economic decisions.
County Administrative Officer Marbelli opened the discussion with a summary of the county response: warming centers and an overnight shelter were opened, the sheriff’s dispatch served as an intake point for sheltering needs, and the county will produce an…
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