At about 12:40pm on Thursday, December 1 the power went out in Lee Vining. At 2:00pm it appeared that the power in Mono County from Bridgeport south might be out the rest of the day and possibly into tomorrow. With frozen pipes, no heat, no electricity, and no Internet, the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore will be closed for the rest of today and until power is restored.

As of 2:15pm our phone system was still running on battery backup, so if you call you can still leave our staff voicemails, but soon the battery should run out and the phone system in the office will stop working. Emails to our office will be held by our spam filtering service until our server is back up and running after power is restored.

The rest of the Eastern Sierra region is dealing with this outage as well, so if you are traveling to the area today, be aware that gas stations, restaurants, markets, and motels in Mono County will be without power and may be closed today and possibly into tomorrow.

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