Power restored to North Shore residents after early morning outage

Nearly a thousand North Shore IID customers were left without electricity early Tuesday morning due to an Imperial Irrigation District service outage.

The outage was reported shortly before 4:00 a.m.

IID tweeted a statement saying, "We are currently experiencing a power outage in North Shore affecting 954 customers. Troubleshooter in route. Additional updates to follow."

There was no immediate word on a cause, and no word if the outage was related to an electrical storm in the east valley area at the time.

103 customers in Borrego Springs and 493 customers Bombay Beach also suffered early morning service outages, but both saw service restored shortly after 5:00 a.m. The North Shore outage was restored shortly thereafter.

Stay with KESQ News Channel 3 for updates.