More Than 150,000 Bay Area Residents Lose Power in Storm

By Bay City News Service:

Heavy wind and rain in the area has left 16,900 Bay Area residents and businesses without power Thursday afternoon.

The Bay Area outages are down from more than 100,000 Thursday morning, including 93,000 in San Francisco, PG&E officials said. A total of 152,900 Bay Area customers lost power at some point during the day.

To manage the massive outages, PG&E brought in crews from Washington state, Oregon, and Southern California to assist.

“PG&E is doing everything we can to minimize power outages during this storm,” PG&E officials said in a statement. “We have extra crews and resources responding to the storm and we are working around the clock to restore customers’ power.”

Outages in San Francisco caused disruptions to businesses and transit.

The Montgomery BART station was closed for most of the morning because of power outages, Pier 39 and all its businesses was closed, and the Federal Building closed early.

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