More than 4,000 San Diego Gas & Electric customers were without power in the La Mesa area Wednesday afternoon.
The unexpected outage began around 2 p.m. for customers in the La Mesa, San Carlos, Del Cerro and Lake Murray areas. The majority of customers had power restored before 3:30 p.m. and SDG&E anticipates those remaining should have electricity restored by 7:30 p.m
Separately, about 840 customers were without power in North County San Diego. SDG&E estimates power will be restored for those customers by 8:30 p.m.
The cause of both outages was not known.
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