Thousands of customers temporarily lose power in Bay Area during storm

By Carlos E. Castañeda

Large outages had thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers in Oakland and in eastern Contra Costa County without power Monday afternoon as heavy rain and wind battered the Bay Area.

The Oakland outage was reported in the Lake Merritt, Ivy Hill and Rancho San Antonio neighborhoods at 3:53 p.m., according to data from PG&E’s outage map. The power was restored by 5 p.m.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the outage, which came during a heavy downpour over Oakland and Alameda County

Earlier in eastern Contra Costa County, about 3,500 customers in the Brentwood-Oakley area lost power beginning at 2:35 p.m. The power was mostly restored as of 4:30 p.m., but a second outage affecting 3,800 people was reported at about 5 p.m.

The power was restored about an hour later.

In the South Bay, about 8,500 customers lost power around 8 p.m., according to PG&E. Power was estimated to be restored around 2 a.m.

This is a breaking news update. More information to be added as available.