(Thousands experience Power outages).....The outages occured Saturday afternoon.

A storm swept thru Imperial County and into Coachells Valley. There were reports that up to 9 power poles were knocked down by the strong winds. Thousands in the Imperial Irrigation District Service areas experienced power outages. Most of the lights were back on by Sunday, and the rest were back Monday. On their Facebook Page, power has completely been restored to Calipatria, Indo, Borrego Springs, Mecca, North Shore, Heber, Seeley and over 4,600 customers in Imperial and El Centro. There was also a fire at an IID Substation, but very little information has been released on that.