SF News BREAKING: PG&E Fire Vault Closes Geary Boulevard Traffic is closed East Bound on Geary Boulevard between 29th & 31st Avenue until after 10:00 a.m. A PG&E vault fire (similar to this one in 2009) caused a
SF News 9,000 Without Power In San Francisco's Western Addition, Haight A major power outage hit San Francisco today affecting central San Francisco. An estimated 9,000 people are without juice. According to Andrew Dalton at SFist's western headquarters, "a couple of PG&
SF News Power Outage Hits Western Addition [Updated] A whopping 7,000 PG&E customers are without power this morning after an outage hit the area. Intersections are affected and parking control officers are controlling intersections. Please be advised. Far
SF News PG&E Flip Flops Again, While Mayor Lee Calls Candlestick Power Outage "A National Embarrassment" In a press conference yesterday afternoon, Mayor Lee called Monday night's power outage at Candlestick Park "a national embarrassment." This is, of course, the same Mayor Lee who once called PG&E
SF News PG&E Changes Its Mind, Blames Candlestick Power Outage On The City Although PG&E admitted last night's power outage at Candlestick Park was due to an exploding transformer, the historically volatile power company doesn't want to take the fall for the incident. As
SF News Strong Winds, Power Outages Expected To Slam Bay Area According to PG&E, strong winds will hit the Bay Area over the next two days. This could result in power outages and ruined hairdos. "The utility is anticipating some power outages
SF News PG&E Outage Leaves Nearly 7,000 Haight and Western Addition Residents Without Power [Updated] .bbpBox{background:url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/339019803/PGE_TwitterBkgd_02.JPG) #0089c4;padding:20px;}Haight/Western Addition Outage: Approx 6900 customers are currently w/o power. PG&E
SF News Rain Casuses Power Outages Throughout Bay Area This morning rain - feel it on your fingertips, hear it on the windowpane - has caused minor power outages in the Bay Area. In the North Bay an estimated 1,500 residents
SF News Valentine's Day Balloon Causes Power Outage In Concord Do you know what airy expressions of love will get you? Powerlessness. Take, for example, what happened in Concord today. "A stray Valentine’s Day balloon drifted into power lines in Concord Monday
SF News Manhole Covers Explode in Financial District Speaking of explosions, two manhole covers exploded Friday morning in San Francisco's Financial District. CBS 5 notes: "Reports indicated two manholes exploded near the area of Sutter and Montgomery Streets around 7:30
SF News Power Outage In the Broderick / Post Street Area "Traffic signals are out due to power outage in the Broderick / Post Street area. To avoid traffic congestion, avoid the area until 1 p.m.," alerts AlertSF. So, there you have it.
SF News SOMA Power Outage Renders Customers, Bay Bridge Powerless At around 5:45 a.m. this morning, "a power outage left a portion of the Bay Bridge and a swath of San Francisco's South of Market District in the dark early this
SF News Power Outage Shuts Down Muni Metro (Updated) We're getting reports this evening that there's a subway power outage in San Francisco, resulting in Muni metro lines being "totally dead." According to MuniAlerts: "Subway outage may last all night. Shuttle buses
SF News Power Outage Hits Mission, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights According to Emergency_In_SF, "Power is sill out to 5,300+ customers in Mission & Noe Districts, Diamond Heights and Upper Market..." Most harrowing of all, SFist Deborah almost missed out on
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 Power Outage Hits Laurel Village and Western Addition, Avoid Geary Western Addition and Laurel Village neighborhoods are currently without power. According to reports, "an underground cable between Geary and Baker that shorted out around 12:40, leaving 1,249 customers in the WE
SF News Hayward-Fremont BART Busted A power outage has affected the Hayward-Fremont Bart line. Hayward, South Hayward, Union City, and Fremont are all feeling the powerlessness, and Bart is "currently working on setting up a bus bridge." In
misc Friendly Neighbors and Restored Power It's amazing how "wired" we've become. It makes moments like the one pictured above seem much more precious. Watching our neighbors chip in to remove this fallen tree from the street reminds us
misc Eight Things We Learned About Hanukkah 1. Hanukkah has multiple spellings: Hanukkah, Hanukka, Chanuka, and Chanukah. 2. It's important to double check (using a calendar, not a person) which is the actual first night of Hanukkah. We accidentally lit
misc Benefit for Irene McGee McGee has had a pretty rough time of it lately. First she got let go from her show on Free FM amongst rumors of all sorts of sexual harassment. And then her apartment
SF News Fire At Fifth And Harrison Tough few days in SoMa -- the mysterious power outage yesterday and today, a four-alarm fire above the Olympic restaurant at Fifth and Clara that's required the CHP to close down the Fifth
SF News Blackout! We don't know much of the details as there doesn't seem to be a lot of news on it out there right now. We just know we were halfway through reading Deadspin when
SF News This Week's BART F--- Up As a result, trains were stopped between Balboa Park and Daly City. Once everything was back up, there were delays of up to half an hour as BART played catch-up. According to reports,
SF News Your Commute: I've Cut the Power It's gettin'... it's gettin'... it's gettin' kinda hectic. BART was held up this morning for about an hour due to-- drum roll please-- a contractors mistake. Yay!!! We totally had snakes on the
Arts & Entertainment PG & no E We knew that bag of 100 IKEA tea lights would come in handy one of these days! Yet another fire at that same PG&E substation that keeps bursting into flames blacked
