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Transcripts For KGO ABC World News Tonight With David Muir 20191024 00:30:00

On after the wind event is over, sometime midday tomorrow, they dont just flip a switch and turn the power back on, they have to go out and physically inspect all of those lines to make sure if a limb has come down on one of those lines, they ve clear that, make sure everything is okay. They started turning off power in the Sierra Foothills around 2 00 this afternoon. Places like the peninsula, they could be impacted. Overnight stly. But as you said, it takes time to get it back up and running. They cant just turn it back on. We could have another wind event, possibly over the weekend. Yeah. Sunday looks a bit dicey at this point. So well have to see about that. And its so interesting, isnt it, that they can flip the power off no problem but turning it back on is a little more challenging because they dont want to just turn it back on in the event that a line has been damaged in the wind. That defeats the purpose of the
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Transcripts for KGO ABC World News Tonight With David Muir 20191024 00:51:00

Centers or we re having field employees underneath switches and devices in the field. so we allowed for some extra operating time, operating margin if you will in order to do that system. our original forecast was at the sierra foothill region, which started at 2:00, and the north bay area start at 3:00. that came with the understanding that if weather conditions changed either for the good or not to the good that we would adjust that timing. we were monitoring that in real time and felt the need. we saw a little increase in the wind conditions with our field observers that were mt field as well as the several weather stations that we have. so we executed with enough time to complete by 5:00 and we were successful on that effort. they were supposed to get an ....

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