(FOX40.COM) — A power outage in the Natomas area affected over 5,000 SMUD customers on Thursday, according to the utility’s outage map.
SMUD said that the reason for the outage is unknown, but as of 9:16 p.m., it said that 5,256 customers were without power. Power was expected to be restored around 9:30 p.m., but SMUD updated the time to between 10 and 10:40 p.m.
The area most affected was South Natomas near San Juan Road and Truxel Road just south of Interstate 80.
The outage occurred just before 8 p.m. and also affected some SMUD customers in the North Natomas and North Sacramento area.
As of 10 p.m., power was restored to over 3,000 SMUD customers, but 1,280 were still without power.
Aydian Ahmad
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