Thousands without power from Bay Area storm
PG&E crews have been working hard Sunday to restore power, after heavy winds and rain shook the Bay Area on Saturday.
As of Sunday morning, nearly 20,000 customers in the Bay Area still had no power. Nearly half of those were in Marin County. And about 3,000 were in San Mateo County.
"It was a significant storm. We measured wind gusts in several areas north of 80 miles an hour," said Dave Canny, PG&E vice president of the north coast region. "We’ve seen a lot of vegetation impacting our lines - trees down, wires down, that sort of thing."
In Corte Madera, a tree fell on a power line, cutting off power to thousands at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Andy and Amy Arenberg haven't had power for more than 24 hours.
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"We sat in the electric car last night and watched Seinfeld because we could. And it’s where we had power," said Andy Arenberg.
"It was cold last night. This morning we went and got dry ice for our refrigerator and freezer to hopefully save that," said Amy Arenberg.
PG&E said power is expected to be back on in their neighborhood by Sunday night, about 36 hours after it went off. Two poles need to be replaced.
"We’re trusting that they’ll get both poles replaced and the wires re-strung and the power back on with any luck before 9 o’clock tonight," said Andy Arenberg.
Restaurants on Tamalpais Drive were shut down Sunday morning. While many in the area had power restored just before noon Sunday, some are still waiting for PG&E to respond to their neighborhood.
"We’d like our customers to know that we’re squarely focused on restoring them and restoring every last customer, we have significant resources that are already in the area and bringing additional resources in," said Canny.
He said PG&E crews were well staffed and positioned for the storm. They have been bringing in crews from areas like Humboldt County to help out in Marin and Sonoma.