Power Outages Reported Throughout Bay Area

More than 27,000 PG&E customers in the Bay Area remain without power this morning as a result of strong winds overnight, according to PG&E officials.

As of about 4:30 a.m., about 6,900 outages were reported in the North Bay, 20,000 outages were reported in the East Bay and about 170 outages were reported on the Peninsula, PG&E officials said.

By 8:20 a.m., about 1,000 customers remained without power in the Sonoma Valley. More than 250 of those residents were in the Boyes Hot Springs area. More the 18,800 PG&E customers in Sonoma County were initially without power this morning, according to PG&E officials.

The East Bay and Oakland areas were hard hit; nearly 10,000 Oakland area customers remained without electricity, and about 4,000 were powerless in Berkeley.

Initially, over 55,000 Bay Area PG&E customers were without power this morning, according to PG&E officials.

More than 30,800 PG&E customers in Oakland were in the dark beginning late Thursday night. About 4,000 PG&E customers in Berkeley and about 1,800 PG&E customers in Albany were also without power, PG&E officials said.

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