Overview
- By early Friday, PG&E reported about 9,200 customers still without electricity across the Bay Area following a week of severe weather.
- On Christmas morning, outages topped 35,000 on the Central Coast, with an estimated 18,755 customers affected in Monterey County and 16,309 in Santa Cruz County.
- PG&E said approximately 400,000 customers have had service restored since the first storm on Tuesday, with about 95% back within 12 hours of losing power.
- The utility deployed more than 8,000 employees and contract crews and concentrated work in heavily wooded areas such as the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Monterey Peninsula.
- The National Weather Service extended a regional flood watch through Friday night and cautioned about lingering rain, flash-flood risk, and hazardous coastal conditions.