PG and E has announced that they will proactively turn off power, due to the wildfire danger from forecasted strong north winds, for nearly 800-thousand customers across Northern and Central California. That’s over wide areas of 34 counties, including around 43-thousand customers in Nevada County. Spokeswoman Brandi Merlo says they expect to begin outages in some areas early Wednesday. As for when the lights may come back on…

Merlo says it’s also very possible that customers may be affected by a shutoff, even though they aren’t experiencing extreme weather conditions in their specific location. That’s because the electric system relies on power lines working together to provide electricity across cities, counties, and regions…

This is the third time in the last few weeks that Nevada County has been affected by PG and E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff Program. Around seven-thousand customers were impacted by the first shutoff, around 16-thousand for the second one. The local Sierra College campus will also, once again, have a Community Resource Center open, from 8am until dark.