Pacific Gas & Electric begins shutting off power in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Authorities have not linked those incidents to the shut-off.With a power shut-down looming, residents of the Oakland Hills, where a wildfire in 1991 killed 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes, spent the morning buying bottled water, getting cash and filling their cars with gas.After cutting power to hundreds of thousands of customers, Pacific Gas & Electric delayed until 8 p.m. a power shut-off intended to prevent wildfires in a large swath of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ruth Self says Pacific Gas & Electric is doing the right thing in shutting off electricity in advance of dry, gusty winds that were forecast to sweep much of California.Her son Graham Self said they’ll “have to drink beer ’til the power comes back on,” given the store’s depleted supplies of water and ice.A small city expecting a power shut-off as California’s largest utility moves to prevent wildfires is imposing a curfew.
Anderson says winds should peak between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in much of the San Francisco Bay Area. Shelves also were also being emptied of emergency supplies at the town hardware store before Pacific Gas and Electric shut down power to help prevent wildfires. He said he was upset and feels PG&E jumped the gun on the outage, since it was not even windy Wednesday morning, He also said the utility did not provide enough warning.
But the couple in suburban Sacramento forgot to charge their cellphones and were unable to get information on the Pacific Gas and Electric website, which was down after being overloaded with visitors. Pacific Gas and Electric spokesman Mark Mesesan said Wednesday it may take days to restore power because power lines and equipment must be checked before being re-energized.
Red Flag warnings for critical fire weather are expected to go into effect Thursday because of forecasts calling for Southern California’s notoriously gusty Santa Ana winds.Residents in Sonoma in California’s wine country are swarming to the few businesses opened in the town’s square amid a power outage expected to last for days — a bakery with lines out the door and a bar lit with lanterns.
Caltrans crews worked through the night to install generators at the Caldecott Tunnel linking the East Bay to San Francisco and the Tom Lantos Tunnel on State Route 1 in Pacifica.
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