Thousands lose power as winter weather rolls in
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Thousands of Oregonians are without power Wednesday morning as winter weather sweeps through the region.
Portland General Electric reports crews are working to restore electricity to more than 8,000 customers across the state. The cause for several of those outages remains under investigation, however, PGE estimates power will be restored for hundreds late Wednesday morning.
Pacific Power is busy with similar issues, with several outages reported south of Salem. Crews managed to restore power to a large outage that was impacting more than 1,700 residents in Northeast Portland.
Meanwhile, Clark Public Utilities says crews have restored electricity to nearly half of their customers that were impacted by an earlier outage.