Nearly 10,000 Bay Area PG&E customers were still in the dark Friday, three days removed from Tuesday’s massive windstorms.
monstrous windstorm thrashed power lines
and left hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents without power, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company worked to slash remaining outages to less than 10,000 as of Friday morning. According to the utility’s 9 a.m. update Friday, 9,711 PG&E customers were still without power. 4,652 of those were in the South Bay, while 3,777 were on the Peninsula. An additional 1,060 remained in the dark in the East Bay.
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