STORM HAS CAUSED AMOUNT OF PG&E OUTAGES IN NEARLY 30 YEARS

This week's storm has led to the most outages experienced by the utility in nearly 30 years, impacting over 1.4 million customers since Sunday across its service area. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, over 12,000 customers in the Bay Area were still without power. The North Bay bore the brunt of the outages, with more than 8,100 customers affected, according to PG&E. The surge in outages coincided with another bout of rain and wind sweeping through the region, depositing over a half-inch of rain in certain parts of the Bay Area since Wednesday morning.

As the atmospheric river swept through the region, Sunday marked the highest number of outages in a single day since the start of PG&E's modern period of recording outages in 1995. During the past few days, the storm has caused the breaking or toppling of over 700 PG&E power poles and inflicted damage on hundreds of transformers, as reported by the utility. To address the extensive outages, PG&E has mobilized approximately 5,000 employees and contractors who are diligently working to restore power to affected areas.

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