Bay Area total power outages as of 5 p.m. from PGE4Me: 34,798
PG&E crews were busy cleaning up from strong winds that blew trees onto power lines and electrical equipment around the Bay Area and Northern California.High winds are the arch enemy of power lines. Pacific Gas & Electric is backlogged with hundreds of damaged or destroyed pieces of equipment that caused outages for hundreds of thousands of its customers system-wide.
More mutual aid crews are on standby since this is only the beginning. "We've got more wind coming in obviously today, a little less intense than yesterday and obviously in the days to come, we have some rain to follow and some very low elevation snow," said Johnson.
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