As emergency crews responded to dozens of reports downed trees and flooded roads on Wednesday evening, more than 79,000 Bay Area customers were without power.
Most of the outages were on the Peninusula, where 36,114 were without power, according to PG&E.
The outages affected 19,874 in the North Bay; 10,532 in San Francisco, 8,396 in the East Bay and 4,416 in the South Bay, according to PG&E spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian.
Thanks to those who gave use those scented Christmas candles, we are sitting in a cozily-lit family room (power off) having just ate and heated the house, enjoying the pine-scent and thankful to be home and safe with storm raging outside.
Had enough of a power dip in west Clayton for cable box to go STUPID.
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Only seeing 27 mph winds out this way . . . . .
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Fault conditions for above ground conductors can be fixed in hours.
Fault conditions for under grounded conductors can take, days to weeks to repair.
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On that under grounding project on Kirker Pass, once done they chain sawed off tops of poles. All other wires, coax, fiber etc are still up there on, what’s left of the poles.
Nothing like a warm fire roaring, a glass of good bourbon and the hubby both cooking and baking. Even our very temperamental puppy approves.
Power didn’t go out, but Comcast was down. Just came back on a few (10, 20?) minutes ago.
Concord Libraryish.