About 5,000 San Francisco Pacific Gas & Electric customers were still without power the following Monday Widespread power outages The utility company said the hurricane left about a third of the city in the dark on Saturday.
The remaining customers without power were mostly in the Richmond, Presidio and Civic Center neighborhoods, PG&E said. City facilities in the affected Civic Center area were closed to in-person services Monday, including City Hall, the post office and SFMTA customer service.
On Sunday morning, PG&E said It restored power to 110,000 customers. By the afternoon, service had been restored to about 4,000 additional customers. According to the utility company, a fire broke out in one of its substations, causing “significant and extensive” damage.
In a news conference Monday, PG&E said the fire at the substation at Mission Street and 8th Street started shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday, and the utility had to deactivate parts of the system to make it safe for firefighters to fight the blaze.
As of Monday afternoon, the cause of the fire was not known.
PG&E said Sunday that it expects all customers affected by the substation outage to have power by 2 p.m. Monday at the latest. However, a PG&E spokesperson said Monday that although 96% of the outages would be resolved by 2 p.m. Monday, the estimated restoration time for remaining customers had been pushed back to 6 a.m. Tuesday.
The San Francisco Department of Emergency Services said Sunday that PG&E will establish a center community resource center, Along with city employees, for those without electricity, before an expected wave of heavy rain from Atmospheric river. It will be open from 5pm to 10pm and will be located at 251 18th Street, in the Richmond Recreation Center. After Sunday it will be open from 8am to 10pm daily.
Mayor Daniel Lowry said there is a small business outreach plan to let businesses affected by power outages know they can file claims with PG&E.
“Some customers are starting to get power back with PG&E restoring power to an additional 4,000 homes, but there are still 17,000 customers without power. If you have an affected small business, you can file a claim at http://pge.com/claim“,” Laurie said.
At the peak of the outage, the utility company said about 130,000 customers were affected.
Mooney’s disorders
Muni service along the Market Street subway was affected by a power outage, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Money Alerts.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Muni riders affected by the outage can use BART for free between the Embarcadero and Civic Center, BART said.
“See the station agent to let him in,” Bart said.
Waymo suspends service
The self-driving technology company halted its robotaxi services during a power outage.
The company announced on Sunday that it would resume passenger transportation services.
“While Waymo Driver was designed to handle non-functional signals as a four-way stop, the sheer scale of the outage resulted in instances where vehicles remained stationary for longer than normal to confirm the status of the affected intersections,” Waymo said. “This contributed to traffic friction at peak congestion.”