PG&E says Tuesday was the worst single day for Bay Area outages in almost 3 decades - San Francisco Chronicle

PG&E says Tuesday was the worst day for Bay Area outages since 1995
PG&E workers work on power lines. A day after a powerful storm blew through the Bay Area, around 155,000 PG&E customers were still without power. Salgu Wissmath/The Chronicle

On Wednesday morning the storms had broken, the sky had lifted to reveal a brilliant blue but thousands of Bay Area residents were still without power.

As of 10 a.m., Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reported that 83,049 customers in the South Bay and 40,014 on the Peninsula were still lacking electricity from a storm that started overnight Monday and continued through Tuesday.