For a potential power outage — and any other natural or man-made disaster that may strike — you want to have your basic emergency readiness boxes ticked. In the city of Los Angeles, you can check the L.A. Department of Water and Power outage map here and click here for alerts. Here’s the outage map for San Diego Gas & Electric and how to download the app with alerts. If you have advance notice that you may lose power, there are things you can do to get ready to weather the outage. Anticipate what your power needs might be during the outage and figure out how to plan ahead:AdvertisementLearn how to manually open your garage door, or leave it open during the outage.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 17, 2021 21:24 UTC