This entire town, was in the dark. Unt,he number of people affected statewide was in the millions. And now were hearing it could come again. For Sonoma County it was two days without power. Restaurants and delis had to throw out perishable items and cash registers wouldnt work. We did 5,000 or 6,000 less. Reporter pet food express had to have frozen goods shipped out and the market had to stop selling perishable items and they have gone out and bought a generator. If anything we learned a lesson in that regard. Reporter Sonoma Valley hospital lost power which was a surprise to the board member. Hospitals are not supposed to be cut off and our hardworking ceo made a number of phone calls to pg e without getting through and leaving messages. But to reply. Reporter and that lack of information from pg e is what urks county county supervisor yang. We are not getting what we need to adequately prepare our constituents. Reporter the website kept crashing and when it was working it wasnt accu
Be coming. Sonoma Valley Hospital lost power in the october 9th shutdown. Bill borum sits on the board of directors. It wasnt expected because hospitals are not supposed to cut off. Reporter pg e never responded to repeated phone calls during the outage and the utilitys website crashed repeatedly leaving customers in the dark about whether theyd be cut off or not. They need to fix their website. Reporter Sonoma County supervisor shirlee zane is steamed over the utilitys lack of specific information. They basically made a lot of promises that they were going to improve how they notify people and how they break down the grid. Had they done this yet . No, we havent seen it. Reporter a pg e spokesman tells me the next time it will be better, that the utility has compartmentalize the grid to company told minimize the areas that have to go dark. The manager of the nughereget i another blackout like the one they had two weeks ago. The Company Purchased a shiny new generator to take care of ou
Yes, we have we have mandatory evacuations right now for the Sonoma Valley area and the santa rosa area, and i can give you those locations real quick where the evacuations are. Yes, please. Yeah, okay. So, for Sonoma Valley, its going to be 7th street east. Uhhuh. From east napa street to denmark street. So this is the Sonoma Valley area. I think this was one of the first evacuations that we had earlier this morning. Can you tell us a little bit about where that is and we can put that map up on the screen. We have a little map made for that one. Its southeast of downtown sonoma, is that correct . Thats correct. And thats not as heavily populated, but the newer this is were now showing the map on our screen. Its not as densely populated but you do believe that youve gotten everyone out of there, is that correct . Yes, maam. We believe so, yes. But we we just have to remember that if we do request the evacuations, that were hoping that people understand that the evacuation is not only f
Petaluma, novato, just anywhere to get away from this area. They have Evacuation Centers set up there for a lot of people to get there. This includes so many homes, hundreds of homes, thousands of people potentially affected. It is the area to the north and to the south of highway 12 from kenwood to east santa rosa. For people who cant get out, if you dont have a car, if you dont have any way to get out of town, there is a bus or a set of buses stationed at the safeway at calistoga road and highway 12. But also, we were talking to the Sheriffs Office of Sonoma County. They told us if you cant get out, they will come to you. They are so determined to get people into safety, they will come to you and help you save yourself. They want people to go as marcus said west on highway 12, south on 101, go as far as novato and petaluma. They dont want people heading just the next town over. They need people to evacuate farther south. Now what youre looking at on your screen is the first mandatory
1 20 in the afternoon and that used to never happen. And im in slow traffic at 2 30 a. M. Coming into the city. That used to never happen. So you have your work cut out for you all the time five days a week. Well talk more about traffic coming up but well take a look at what you can anticipate out the door on this friday. You will see traffic and also some clouds at the coast into the bay. We have clear skies inland. Livermore 59. We do have a heat advisory in effect for that yellow highlighted area which encompasses most of the inland areas. Temperatures soar into the triple digits. Right now, we have the relief of that onshore push. Clouds right there right now are developing along the seashore hugging the san mateo coast. What you need to know higher temperatures this afternoon, hottest days the weekend, a short heat wave but still above average next week with highs in the 90s. Temperatures today 60s at the coast with clearing at Rockaway Beach. 60s, 70s around the rim of the bay in