Any Dopers affected by this? It seems to be from an exploded transformer, and there’s no timeline on when power will be restored.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/power-outage-pge-san-francisco/
It looks like it’s going to cancel our plans for the evening, but otherwise we’re fortunate to reside in the unaffected part of the city.
Coincidentally, I had just finished watching a clip of the 1989 Earthquake when I went back to the Dope and saw this thread.
I had wondered how this would affect the airport, and looking at maps of the Bay area, the airports are not in the blacked-out zone.
No problem here. I live in the southern part of the city, near Daly City. (We are generally ignored as a location that is actually part of the city, so I can’t be too sad that we were also ignored for this problem).
I’m surprised to see there’s still a substantial area without power. There has been no effect here, about 20 miles south of the city. I hope they get it taken care of soon. There’s supposed to be a bomb cyclone coming in a couple days from now, and they’ll need all available hands to deal with the inevitable outages from that storm.
Most of that area, at least as I write, is Golden Gate Park. That makes it look somewhat bigger than it actually is.
As of 8am this morning, watching the tv news, there were still a few thousand without power.
A (city & county) Supervisor serving one of the districts heavily affected is making noises about a hearing to explore what exactly happened. Not a total waste of time and money, but one supposes that with an exploding transformer there will be knock-on effects down the line, each of which will have to be tracked down and repaired. A hearing might only be useful because no-one trusts PG&E to tell you the right time of day*. However, I predict no surprises should such a hearing take place.
*Every time I hear one of their commercials talking about the infrastructure improvements that PG&E is making, I remind myself that these are being paid for by the ratepayers, not the stockholders.
Substation seems to mean different things in other parts of the world. This is what we think one is here. A fire at a place like this would be a big deal.