Local residents wanting to visit the DMV were encountering long lines and slow online service Monday morning because of a power outage.

Customers were lined up outside the door at the fell street DMV in San Francisco around 11 a.m.

The computers were offline when the office was supposed to open, causing a big backup in service.

Online users were also met with a message in red, warning them of slow service.

The California DMV’s technology office was hit with a power outage over the weekend that affected hundreds of state and local agencies.

Some DMV customers said the slowdown was extremely inconvenient Monday morning.

The DMV had a similar online problem one month ago.

A spokesman for the DMV’s technology office told KTVU that it would take about three hours before the entire system was fully back online.