Amador County – The 600 homes in Amador Pines all reportedly had their power restored by this morning, November 29th, authorities said.

TSPN Friday Amador Live host Susie Underwood lives in Amador Pines, and she said she had heard unofficially through a Pacific Gas & Electric employee that they had 114 lines down in the residential area. As of Saturday, November 27th, she had been without power for six days, and she e-mailed photos of the snowfall and icicles, saying “six days without power and this is what happens.”

She said “it looked like a war zone with so many trees and power poles down.”

Amador Pines Home Owners Association board member, and Snow Plow Committee Chairman Jack Magee said power initially went out November 21st, and he had snow plows running around the clock. He said last Tuesday (November 23rd) that Amador Pines had about 25 power lines down, and about 5 power poles had broken under the weight of the heavy and abundant snow.

Magee said he notified two PG&E trucks at Inspiration Drive about the lines. They dug out a map, handed him a yellow marker, and told him to mark every place in Amador Pines where a tree was down on power lines, or a tree was hanging on power lines. Magee said he marked about 30 places where lines or trees were down.

He said they, and a CDF crew, were surprised to hear the large number, saying they thought he was reporting only one line down.

Magee said about 600 homes in Amador Pines were without power, and many were subsiding on power from gas or diesel generators. Some with propane and not able to get their tanks refilled were heading to hotels to outlast the outage.

Magee’s power came back on Wednesday night (November 24th), after being out for four days. He said the rest of Amador Pines had power restored later in the week, and as of today, November 29th, all power is restored there. The PG&E website this morning showed no outages in Amador County.

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