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Walnut Creek Power Outages Impacted Hundreds
The East Bay was the hardest hit area for power outages as a storm tore through the Bay Area, according to PG&E.
WALNUT CREEK, CA — Hundreds of people in and around Walnut Creek were without power early Wednesday morning, a PG&E outage map shows. By late afternoon, the number had dwindled to less than a dozen.
One outage alone left more than 600 customers in the cold and dark.
Across the Bay Area, more than 36,000 customers were without power at 4:30 a.m. By 6:30, the number had been cut to 27,000 and the number continued to go down as crews worked to restore electricity.
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The largest outages were in the East Bay, where more than 16,000 customers were affected at one time.
— Patch editor Bea Karnes and Bay City News contributed to this story
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