Lines. All right. In the north bay, businesses are trying to make due, many operating without power for a second straight day. Some challenges to be sure. Abc7s Wayne Friedman is live in santa rosa with the story. Wayne . Reporter good afternoon. As power comes back slowly, so does norm am see. Weve been at the corn of mendocino and bicente in staosa nniarl w mosayt of th day. Earlier, just stop signs, traffic going through, people trusting other people, no light lights came on. Now if you look over my shoulder, you can see we have full traffic lights again. We have reds, we have yellows, greens. A lot more safety on tfran kly. Thats some good news after all of this ordeal. Everybody in the north bay seems to be in a hurry. Not as much of a hurry as this timelapse video indicates, but at rush hour tonight, they want to go home. Should they live in a blacked out area like this, they may be going home to black holes. For frank woodward, any credibility that pg e used to have is him. The
They expect and deserve. That helps them live their lives and run their businesses. And this weighs heavily on everyone, including us at pg e. This is not how we want to serve you. And this is not how we want to run our business. Were actually in the business of providing power, not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the decision, and i understand how it alters, how it disrupts the normal flow of life and the normal flow of community. But theres another part of the reality that were in. With winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation, we simply could not continue to run parts of this system given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle with this decision, as we do with any decision to turn off power. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances, the wind, and the vegetation, and we determine that we must have zero risk of a spark. So what exactly was the risk . Well, we know from history that wind speeds, the wind speeds
Gusty in the Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet. We have gusts now to 32 Miles Per Hour, knoxville creek, 22 Miles Per Hour in the oakland hills, mt. Diablo at 26, to the wind gust animation, again gives encouraging ws winds will diminish into the evening. Late tonight, gust at least at the surface dropping below ten Miles Per Hour into the Single Digits. So good news there. On the relative humidity side, though, mixed bag here up in the north bay and over much of the east bay. Well see right now relative humidity ranging from only 5 into the teens. A little bit higher in the santa cruz mountains. We expect relative humidity to increase a little bit in parts of south bay and east bay, but it will remain dangerously low in the north bay. The red flag warning in effect for high fire danger. Well have more details later in the newscast. Dan . Thank you so much. Breaking news in southern california. A fastmoving wildfire has destroyed several mobile homes. It broke out around 2 00 p. M. In