Windy Storm Causes Bay Area Accidents, Outages
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A powerful storm bringing strong winds and heavy rain left thousands of people without power overnight in the Bay Area. More storm systems were poised to pass through in the...
View ArticleWild Weather Brings Tornado, Hail To Bay Area
SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) – A small tornado destroyed a wood and corrugated metal shed at a business in Santa Rosa Friday morning, just hours before the powerful storm prompted a Tornado Warning for San...
View ArticlePower Outages Remain In Santa Cruz County, Bay Area
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (CBS SF) – More than 21,000 PG&E customers remained without power in Santa Cruz County as of late Friday morning, as well as hundreds in the Bay Area, after a wind storm blew...
View ArticleWind Storm Leaves Santa Cruz County Customers Without Power
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (KCBS) – Over a thousand customers are still without power in Santa Cruz County, days after a powerful windstorm hit the area. Pacific Gas and Electric crews have been working to...
View ArticleMost Power Restored In East Bay Outages That Affected Thousands
RICHMOND (CBS SF) — The remaining 208 customers without power this morning in North Richmond were expected to have their power restored by 6:30 a.m. after ten of thousands of customers were in the dark...
View ArticleSFPUC Looks Into Outages On Treasure Island & Yerba Buena Island
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — More than 2,000 residents of Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island have endured more than two dozen power outages this year. Now the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is...
View ArticleStorm Leaves Thousands In Bay Area Without Power
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — As the latest in a series of storms to hit the Bay Area continued to move south Sunday morning, PG&E worked to restore electricity to more than 20,000 customers who lost...
View ArticleCalifornia Utilities Increasingly Vulnerable To Cyber Attacks
SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) — California utility officials are warning that hackers are increasingly targeting utilities with cyber attacks that could leave millions of people without electricity, water and...
View ArticleBay Area Power Outages Blamed On Copper Thieves, Downed Trees
OAKLAND (KCBS)—PG&E is investigating the possibility that copper thieves were to blame for a power outage in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Tuesday night. Meanwhile a fallen tree in San Francisco...
View ArticlePower Outage In Marin County
MARIN COUNTY (KCBS/BCN) — PG&E is working to repair a power outage affecting hundreds of customers in Marin County on Tuesday, a PG&E spokeswoman said. The outage, which initially affected...
View ArticlePG&E Outage Leaves Hundreds Without Power In Santa Rosa
SANTA ROSA (BCN) — Hundreds of PG&E customers are without power in Santa Rosa Thursday morning, a PG&E spokeswoman said. A power outage, affecting 844 customers, was reported near the Sonoma...
View ArticleThousands Without Power Sunday Afternoon Following Early-Morning Napa Quake
NAPA (CBS SF) — PG&E reports there were still about 17,000 customers in the North Bay without power late Sunday afternoon. Most of those customers are in Napa County and in the City of Napa,...
View ArticleRain Causes Power Outages Affecting Thousands In East Bay
RICHMOND (CBS SF) — Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers are without power in seven East Bay cities Thursday morning, a PG&E spokesperson said. Scattered outages throughout the East Bay...
View ArticleSquirrel Sets Off 2 Power Outages That Affect 2,000 Cupertino Customers
CUPERTINO (CBS SF) — Power has been restored to nearly 2,000 customers following two separate power outages in Cupertino Saturday morning caused by a squirrel, a PG&E spokeswoman said. The first...
View ArticleThousands Affected By Numerous Power Outages Across Bay Area As Storm Strikes
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — PG&E is reporting close to 7,000 customers affected by power outages in the Bay Area due to inclement weather Thursday morning. Spokesman J.D. Guidi said the Peninsula is...
View ArticlePower Restored To 5,000 Customers In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — PG&E has restored power after about five thousand homes and businesses in San Francisco were affected by an outage Thursday morning. The outage affected parts of Russian...
View ArticleGet Ready: Storm Bringing Wind Gusts Up To 60 MPH With Potential To Down...
(CBS SF) — Secure those trash cans, lawn furniture and other loose outdoor objects — a Wind Advisory for the San Francisco Bay Area is in effect from 4 a.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday. A Wind Advisory...
View ArticleFallen Tree Knocks Out Power For Over 2,000 Customers In Redwood City And...
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) — A fallen tree has knocked out power to slightly more than 2,000 customers Friday morning in Redwood City and North Fair Oaks, PG&E officials said. The first report of the...
View ArticleCrews Work To Restore Power To Hundreds Throughout Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Hundreds of people were without power in the Bay Area Sunday afternoon, according to a PG&E spokesman. About 410 customers were without power in the East Bay, the largest...
View ArticleMylar Balloon Knocks Power Out For Thousands In SF Mission District
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — More than 6,000 PG&E customers lost electrical service for nearly an hour Sunday afternoon when a mylar balloon damaged power lines in the city’s Mission District, a...
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