The Region - News from June 9, 1987

More than 500,000 Southern California Edison customers suffered power outages at one time or another due to weekend storms. A spokesman for the company said a total of 552,000 customers--about one-eighth of the total served by Edison in its six-county area of Southern California--were affected by blackouts caused by thunderstorms that knocked out nearly 800 major transformers and did an estimated $2.5 in million damage to the company’s equipment. The spokesman said 105 two-person crews and 120 three- or four-person crews worked through the weekend to repair the damage--and most were still at work. He said the last of the blackouts should be over and the lights burning again today.