Overview
- By 9 a.m., about 18,755 customers in Monterey County and 16,309 in Santa Cruz County were without electricity after high winds downed lines and trees.
- PG&E listed the outages as weather-related, with the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Monterey Peninsula reporting the heaviest damage.
- The utility posted restoration targets, including 4:30 p.m. Thursday for one Monterey outage and 11 p.m. Friday for parts of Pacific Grove and Carmel.
- City power in Santa Cruz was largely restored by Thursday morning, though scattered outages carried estimated repair times into Friday night.
- By Thursday evening, about 14,000 customers in Monterey County and roughly 8,000 in Santa Cruz County still lacked power as crews worked to restore service, with more than 8,000 employees and contractors deployed statewide.