SF News Thousands of San Francisco PG&E Customers Without Power Emergency_In_SF and AlertSF report that there are an estimated 4,700 to 4,800 customers without power in Potrero and Bayview. "PG&E en route with no estimated time for
SF News East Bay Gas Pipes to Be Extra Stinky Today A batch of natural gas coming down a Pacific Northwest pipeline was mistakenly produced with too much odorant -- the stuff called mercaptan that smells like sulfur that they add to the usually
SF News The Storm: She Is Here Get out those water wings, kids! The worst of the rain is expected to fall today between, um, right now (7 a.m.) and 7 p.m. tonight, and there's a wind advisory
SF News Mylar Balloon Causes Castro Power Outage Last night in San Francisco's notoriously gay Castro neighborhood, 2,8000 were rewarded with forgiving, soft candlelight after a power outage hit the area for about an hour or so. The cause of
SF News <em>Another</em> Underground Fire on Polk Street? Video footage via SF Appeal We received an alert from the handy AlertSF.org (where were you, Emergency_In_SF?!) that there was another underground fire that occurred several hours ago in the
SF News Power Outage Hits SOMA / LORI (Update) 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
SF News Newsom Demands Answers from PG&E With the second major underground fire in four years roaring last Friday -- spectacularly so, we might add -- Mayor Gavin Newsom wants some answers from PG&E. If you recall, in
SF News UPDATE: Yes on H Lunchtime Fun in Downtown SF Tomorrow at noon, in front of of PG&E’s headquarters at 77 Beale, Yes on H activists will install three gargantuan wind turbines. Fun! The makeshift wind turbines will stand 12-feet
SF News Newsom Throws Party at DNC, Sponsors Called Into Question Current San Francisco Mayor, possible future Governor of California, and still-lost-inside-Siebel's-sugar-walls honeymooner Gavin Newsom is throwing some sort of party at the Denver Democratic National Convention. It's cloyingly called Unconventional 08, molded for
SF News PG&E Vault Explosion In Downtown SF Oh my, word. Did you hear it? We received a few emails mentioning it, but NBC 11 confirms: "As of 4:10 p.m., PG & E activity in the vicinity of California
SF News PG&E Power Plant Collapse Kills One, Injures Two in Bayview-Hunter's Point A PG&E plant in the process of being torn down collapsed and killed a worker and injured two others today. Earlier this afternoon in an abandoned Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
