Pacifica Area Expected To Be Impacted By Another PG&E Outage

PACIFICA, CA — As the lights come back on for some across the Bay Area, they are expected to go dark yet again for many. Here in the Pacifica area, county officials say more outages are planned south of town.

The County of San Mateo shared the following message Monday night:

PG&E will shut off power to customers south of Pacifica and west of State Route 280 to the ocean in the evening, 11:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29th. The weather event causing this power shut-down is expected to arrive at midnight and last until 7:00 a.m. on morning of October 30th.

Once the weather event ends PG&E will begin the process of power line inspection and restoring electrical power.-PG&E will be operating Community Resource Centers on Tuesday. For location of Community Resource Centers and power restoration updates visit www.pge.com

The warning comes as PG&E reports that of the 940,000 customers whose power was cut during the weekend Public Safety Power Shutoff, only 325,000 had their power restored by Monday evening.

Approximately 605,000 customers are expected to be affected by Tuesday's PSPS, according to the utility company. Portions of the following 29 counties are currently expected to be impacted: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Humboldt, Kern, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo and Yuba.

"As of Monday afternoon, PG&E estimates the Oct. 29 PSPS in San Mateo County could impact 13,000 service addresses which roughly translates to 39,000 customers," the city of South San Francisco said. "Residents can learn if their address will be impacted by visiting https://psps.ss.pge.com"

Tuesday's event is expected to again be rolled out in phases, starting in the morning.

PG&E meteorologist Scott Strenfel said compared with Sunday's event, winds in Tuesday's event will be weaker but the fuels will be dryer.

"This will be a very high risk event," he said.

Multiple Red Flag Warnings have been issued covering a vast portion of the Bay Area. That area has about 2 million PG&E customers in it.

Strenfel said there is some good news. After Wednesday, weather models do not show another inclement wind event at least through the first week of November.

"Still no rain in the forecast," he said, "but it appears we are going to be entering a more quiescent weather pattern."

Keith Stephens, a spokesperson for PG&E, brought some bad news. He said a contractor working for the utility died Friday night when his vehicle went over a large elevated area in Humboldt County.

— Bay City News Service contributed to this report