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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by inferiorhuman on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:52AM (#43184803)
Yeah, no. Pretty much all of Sonoma and Marin lost power for days. Most of the rest of the cuts were in more rural areas but UC Berkeley and East San Jose got hit. The only county spared entirely was San Francisco.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-10/unprecede...

  PG&E has restored power to 228,000, or 31%, of customers in parts of the San Francisco
  Bay Area after high winds died down and inspections and repairs were complete, Vice
  President Sumeet Singh said during a press briefing. More than 100,000 had already
  regained service earlier Thursday. About 510,000 were still without power.
Over eight hundred thousand is a bit more than a few hundred thousand.
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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by jeffbee on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:23AM (#43185148)
800,000 was the entire state. For example, they turned off the entire city of Red bluff. Red bluff is not in the Bay area. The number of customers that got turned off in the Bay area was much less than 5% of the population. I am sure you can see that that is very different from a nationwide blackout.
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