Tarmo Hannula/The Pajaronian A pickup is stranded between trees that fell across the 100 block of Pioneer Road early Sunday morning knocking out power and communication lines across a wide swath of Watsonville. Scores of residents and businesses are without power as a major storm tramples through the region. There are numerous reports of lines and trees down across from the county as well as flooding and mud and rock slides.

More than 6,000 people in the Watsonville area are without power due to an outage likely caused by the wind and rain storm that ravaged Santa Cruz County on Saturday.

According to PG&E spokeswoman Angela Lombardi, heavy winds ranging from 40-70 miles per hour downed a power pole on private property in Watsonville.

Crews have already restored power to 3,422 customers in the Green Valley area, while 6,410 customers are still without power throughout the City.

Workers are preparing to repair the downed pole, and separately are inspecting a transformer.

Power is estimated to return Sunday night or Monday morning, she said.

Todd Guild contributed to this story.

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Tarmo Hannula
Tarmo Hannula has been the lead photographer with The Pajaronian newspaper in Watsonville since 1997. More recently Good Times & Press Banner. He also reports on a wide range of topics, including police, fire, environment, schools, the arts and events. A fifth generation Californian, Tarmo was born in the Mother Lode of the Sierra (Columbia) and has lived in Santa Cruz County since the late 1970s. He earned a BA from UC Santa Cruz and has traveled to 33 countries.

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  1. the power came back online this afternoon. at first, PGE told us it would be 4 pm Monday. not a workable solution. the cold, the rain and the wind are not helping even the most insulated home here. we need to have our power working.

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