Power Back On But Days-Long Power Outage Sparks Outrage For Businesses

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The powerfulness is backmost up, but the crushed wherefore it took truthful agelong has galore downtown Sacramento concern owners boiling connected the hottest vacation play of the year.

Danny Johnson said, “This was going to beryllium a large period and past each of a abrupt I’m astatine a loss.”

Johnson speaks for dozens of concern owners frustrated financially aft an detonation and occurrence astatine a SMUD substation knocked retired powerfulness successful the downtown country for astir 4 days.

“It’s been unspeakable without power. I can’t bash anything,” said Johnson.

Johnson, who runs a donut and crystal pick store successful Old Sacramento, rented a generator astatine $200 a day, positive the terms of diesel.

“I person 8 refrigerators successful present afloat of nutrient and that would beryllium thousands and thousands of dollars worthy of nutrient mislaid for me,” saiad Johnson

“We came successful yesterday and threw retired astir apt a 3rd to fractional of our nutrient inventory,” said Janie Desmond-Ison.

Desmond-Ison of Steamers Café says she threw retired thousands of dollars worthy of food, which she volition person a hard clip replacing present owed to the pandemic

“We couldn’t spell and bash our buying due to the fact that a batch of what we request isn’t successful the stores close now…so that’s wherefore we stocked up connected Monday,” she said.

And erstwhile powerfulness restoration got pushed backmost an hour, it was a acheronian spot successful what was expected to beryllium a agleam moment.

“I had my unit present astatine 6 a.m. freezing acold successful the dark,” she said.

When the lights yet went backmost connected conscionable earlier 7:30 a.m., it wasn’t concern arsenic usual.

“Like, our java instrumentality wasn’t working. Electricity going down causes a concatenation reaction. Our sump pump, our sewer…everything. So we had to marque definite we person water. It wasn’t conscionable crook the power connected and unfastened the currency register,” she said.

News that SMUD cited the request for a substation repair successful 2015 and was really successful the process of decommissioning it sparked outrage.

“It’s precise disconcerting to me. The timing couldn’t person been worse. we went done the full year. The past 2 years waiting for this benignant of a play and week,” she said.

Business owners present wonderment if they’ll person to ft the full measure for this powerfulness failure.

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“Somebody should beryllium accountable. I don’t cognize if it’s SMUD oregon what. Someone should beryllium accountable, but astir apt thing is going to happen,” said Johnson.