Reminder, planned power outage scheduled for Wallowa County tonight
By Garrett Christensen on Thursday, October 15th, 2026 in Northeastern Oregon News Northeastern Oregon Top Stories Uncategorized
WALLOWA COUNTY – A reminder for Wallowa County residents, Pacific Power is planning a scheduled power outage this evening, Thursday, October 15, through the early morning of Friday, October 16. Residents are advised to unplug sensitive electronics in advance of the outage.
Residents should also prepare for the temporary loss in heating during the outage. As of the time of writing, low temperatures for tonight and early Friday morning range from the mid-to-lower 30s, possibly hitting the freezing point near sunrise.
For more information, see the following release from Wallowa Valley Network:
(Press release from Wallowa Valley Network)
Pacific Power is planning an outage starting on Thursday, October 15th at about 10PM and ending Friday, the 16th, at 5AM. It sounds like the outage will cover most or all of the county.
Pacific Power asks that customers unplug sensitive electronics. This is a good idea. Please try not to rearrange how any network cables are plugged in when you do this, though.
Once grid power is restored:
If you have any issues with your internet connection, please do not press the reset button on any WiFi routers; if you do this, it wipes the router settings, which is not what you want to do.
Please make sure that any network devices are plugged back in to power, and look for any network cables that may have inadvertently been unplugged, and attempt to plug them in how they were before.
Please give network gear 5-10 minutes, once it is powered back on, to start up and reconnect. Most WVN systems will have been continuously backup-powered, so most people should not experience any delay on our end. However, in a few areas, our equipment may need time to power back up and reconnect, so please don’t worry if it takes 10 minutes or a bit more.
If you have any issues getting reconnected that you are not able to resolve with the above steps, please give us a call for help!
