Thousands of PG&E Customers in the Bay Area Remain Without Power

About 14,000 PG&E customers stay retired of powerfulness arsenic of precocious Monday greeting successful the Bay Area pursuing weather-related causes, PG&E officials said.

About 5,400 customers were without powerfulness connected the Peninsula portion successful the East Bay astir 4,500 were without energy arsenic of 10:45 a.m. About 3,500 customers were retired of powerfulness successful the North Bay.

In the South Bay and San Francisco, astir 500 customers full were inactive without power.

The Bay Area got it's archetypal rainfall of the season implicit the past 48 hours, coinciding with the powerfulness outages.

Most of the portion experienced scattered rain, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

But parts of Sonoma County got up to one-quarter of an inch and the North Bay mountains experienced one-quarter to a fractional an inch, meteorologist David King said.

"It was a bully small rain," King said.

It alleviated immoderate wildfire concerns, helium said. Three much rainstorms are expected implicit the adjacent week.