Overview:
The outage began around 1 p.m. Friday afternoon and put about 4,100 people out of power. The majority of customers were back online by 1:30 p.m., with the rest following around 4 p.m.
Thousands of Aptos residents were out of power for as long as three hours Friday afternoon, according to PG&E spokesperson Stephanie Magallon.
Magallon said that the cause is still under investigation, but that it appears that a fallen tree brought down power lines, resulting in the outage.
About 4,100 PG&E customers lost power around 1 p.m. More than half of those affected — about 2,200 customers — had their power back by 1:30 p.m., Magallon said. The remaining 1,800 had their power restored by around 4 p.m.