UpdatedTue, Jan 19, 2021 at 5:26 pm PT
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(Bea Karnes/Patch)
EAST BAY, CA Nearly 14,000 East Bay Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers were in the dark at one point Tuesday morning as strong, gusty winds blew across California.
In all, more than 50,000 Bay Area PG&E customers were affected at 9 a.m., said spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian in an email. About 17,500 of those customers were still without power by 5 p.m., including 3,700 in the East Bay.
PG&E had been preparing for the windstorm, readying staff and relying on storm prediction models and automated technology that regulates the electric grid and tracks outages, Sarkissian said.