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El Cerrito Power Mostly Restored
The East Bay is the hardest hit area for power outages as a storm tore through the Bay Area, according to PG&E.
EL CERRITO, CA — Thousands of people in and around El Cerrito were without power early Wednesday morning, a PG&E outage map shows.
One outage that left more than 1400 customers in the cold and dark was fixed just before 8 a.m., PG&E said in an email. The company said the outage "was caused by the weather" but did not elaborate.
Across the Bay Area, more than 36,000 customers were without power at 4:30 a.m. By 6:30, the number had been cut to 27,000.
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The largest outages were in the East Bay, where more than 16,000 customers were affected at one time.
— Patch editor Bea Karnes and Bay City News contributed to this story
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