by NO LATER THAN March 15, 5:31 p.m At 5:15 p.m., PG&E said 98,906 customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were without power.
The regional breakdown is 116 households in San Francisco; 23,822 on the Peninsula; 802 in North Bay; 13,906 in the East Bay; and 60,260 in the South Bay.
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March 15, 1:20 p.m PG&E said in a news conference streamed on YouTube Wednesday afternoon that two-thirds of the approximately 140,000 Bay Area customers who are still groping in the dark have been given an estimated time for their power restoration. These estimates show that power will not be turned back on in some areas for a day or two. The utility said by the end of the day, all customers who will be without power for more than 24 hours will have a recovery schedule.
Estimated recovery times can be found in PG&E’s Outage Center. When you click on your blackout area, a pop-up menu will show you when the lights are expected to come back on. For example, the tool shows that an area in Albany is expected to have power restored on March 16 at 11:50 a.m. An area in Santa Clara shows power is expected to be restored at 10:00 p.m. on March 17.
You can also enter your address in the tool.
As of Wednesday afternoon, PG&E said San Francisco still had 99 customers without power, the North Bay 1,124, the Peninsula 34,880, the East Bay 24,697 and the South Bay 79,401.
March 15, 7:45 am Across the San Francisco Bay Area, 163,601 PG&E customers were still in the dark as of 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, and the utility says power restoration will take longer than usual after an atmospheric flow on Tuesday ignited strong winds and uprooted trees and has damaged equipment.
The regional breakdown is 859 households in San Francisco, 41,991 in the Peninsula, 1,753 in the North Bay, 31,318 in the East Bay, and 87,680 in the South Bay.
“The outages are a result of the storm, specifically the gusty winds that can send debris and vegetation flying into our power lines and equipment,” PG&E said in a statement. “The wind and saturated soil can also result in otherwise healthy trees being uprooted and falling into our equipment.”
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March 14, 6:09 p.m More than 250,000 PG&E customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were still without power as of 6 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the utility company’s latest update, 258,304 homes across the Bay Area are without services.
The regional breakdown is 787 households in San Francisco; 53,958 on the Peninsula; 7,000 in North Bay; 68,196 in the East Bay; and 128,363 in the South Bay.
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March 14, 4:45 p.m At 4:30 p.m., PG&E said 296,067 customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were without power.
The regional breakdown is 1,004 households in San Francisco, 63,731 in the Peninsula, 8,186 in the North Bay, 91,988 in the East Bay, and 131,158 in the South Bay.
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March 14, 3 p.m Nearly 275,000 PG&E customers were without power in the San Francisco Bay Area as of 2 p.m., the utility said in an email.
By region, 1,839 homes in San Francisco could not turn on their lights, 61,967 in the Peninsula, 7,439 in the North Bay, 88,621 in the East Bay and 114,763 in the South Bay.
According to PowerOutage.us, there were more than 370,000 homes without power across the state of California.
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March 14, 2:15 p.m In the San Francisco Bay Area, 155,393 PG&E customers were without power as of 12:30 p.m. Tuesday as an atmospheric flow whipped up high winds across the region, officials said.
“The storm is hitting PG&E’s utility division hard,” PG&E spokeswoman Megan McFarland wrote in an email.
Broken down by region, 2,111 homes were in the dark in San Francisco, 26,254 in the Peninsula, 10,349 in the North Bay, 56,931 in the East Bay and 59,748 in the South Bay.
Outages spread across the state of California as the storm swept through the Bay Area and into the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada. According to PowerOutage.us, there were 338,867 customers without power across the Golden State among the more than 13 million customers tracked as of 2 p.m.
Santa Clara County has been hit hardest by power outages to date, and the region has experienced some of the strongest winds. An 83-mph gust was recorded on Mount Umunhum, which overlooks the valley, said Cindy Palmer, a forecaster for the National Weather Service.
These winds topple power poles and wires, damaging equipment. PG&E advised people not to touch dropped cables.
“When you see a downed power line, assume it is live and extremely dangerous,” McFarland wrote. “Don’t touch it or try to move it — and keep children and animals away.”
You can report broken power lines by calling 911 or PG&E at 800-743-5002.
The Bay Area has a wind warning through 11 p.m. Tuesday, but Palmer said winds are likely to ease after sunset.
This breaking news has been updated.
