An estimated 5,000 people are without power this morning care of PG&E. According to this map, four outages resulted in a major outage for many folks. Power should be restored... soon, hopefully. more ›

Heads up homeward commuters: some of you headed to the Lower Haight might not have power when you get home. According to sources at BCN and the Examiner, the power went out to roughly 5,200 customers including the Castro Muni Station around 2:30 p.m. this afternoon. About 2,900 customers and Muni got their power back within an hour, but PG&E is still reporting an outage in the area as of 5:15 p.m. more ›

Tonight's storm brought several power outages to the Bay Area. Sunset, Richmond, South San Francisco, and Daly City have all been affected by sudden darkness. Most notably, according to Emergency_In_SF, "over 6k customers are without power in the West end of Taraval district." more ›

We're getting reports of a power outage in San Francisco this morning. On readers comments "Just came from Lyon & Grove. Apparently the power is out in the neighborhood because a Muni bus struck a power pole." more ›

A power outage brought the world as we know it to a halt today in the SOMA / LORI neighborhood, most egregiously affecting SFIst HQ. (Damn you to hell again, PG&E.) From what we can tell, power along Third Street from Townsend up to Harrison is sans electricity as of 1:15 p.m.. For those of you who need electricity and a wireless connection in the hood, we recommend going to Epicenter Cafe at 764 Harrison, between Third and Fourth streets. They have wifi, power, passersby AND great coffee. UPDATE: Power had been restored. Please leaved 21 Amendment and South Park, and return to your offices at once. more ›

Thousands of Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz county residents are currently without phone service this morning. They can't even call 911 in case of an emergency. Why? Because of an old, AT&T-owned fiber optic line (leased out to Verizon) that went bust. "Verizon is completely down; other carriers are intermittent at best," said Zachary DeVine, a Santa Clara County spokesman. If residents of Morgan Hill, Gilroy, San Martin and Santa Cruz County cannot make a call to 911, officials "are urging people to go to their nearest fire or police department or local hospital or flag down an emergency vehicle." more ›

Remember the great Youtube outage of 2006? Horribly, it seems to have returned. Can you access the site? We can't. Multiple theories are popping up -- generally, hackers or incompetent cyber-Mohammedans are getting the blame -- or perhaps Google itself is at fault? more ›

Ours was. And how. It would neither send nor receive email for hours. The horror. more ›

Since we're reportedly under the breeziness of "hurricane"-like winds, can we name the storm? If so, can we name it "Mary-Kate," then? Great. more ›

We just received word that for the past two or three days (!?), 17th Street has been without power from at least Valencia up to Dolores. Anyone else have any word of this supposed outage? Seeing as how this is one attractive and expensive strip of real estate, right at the nexus of two neighborhoods, this is of the utmost importance. more ›