UPDATE 10:20 P.M.: According to the PG&E website, most of the households affected by the accident have now had electricity restored.

UPDATE 9:30 P.M.: According to CHP dispatch, a vehicle hitting a pole near the intersection of Fairway Drive and Herrick Ave. appears to be the cause of the outage. The driver of the vehicle has been transported to St. Joe’s. There are multiple lines down.

According to the PG&E website, a large number of customers are out of electricity.  The site says that power went out at 8:12 P.M. and is estimated to be restored at 11:30 P.M.

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An unknown but clearly significant number of people are without power in the Eureka outskirts at the moment. PG&E has yet to have any information up on its outage map, but multiple people are confirming the outage to KHUM and the Outpost.

An Outpost readers write:

Power Line blew about 8:15 p.m. — F Street by the golf course. Huge flash of light. Power out in surrounding area. Cars being redirected. 

And a KHUM caller suggests that the traffic backup, or perhaps closure, extends out to the Herrick Avenue exit. The caller believe he saw lines on the road.