--- description: The major storm moving through Northern California is leaving a trail of power outages in its wake. title: San Francisco Power Outages Amid STorm image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a9e62faaf16e04c/69876e45cd68486617098918/san-francisco-flood.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [weather](/tag/weather/) ## weather Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Thousands Lose Power in San Francisco  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2014 5:10 PM CUT  A bus passes through a flooded roadway on Dec. 11, 2014, in Mill Valley, Calif. A bus passes through a flooded roadway on Dec. 11, 2014, in Mill Valley, Calif.Eric Risberg—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2014 5:10 PM CUT The [major storm moving through northern California](http://time.com/3629626/a-powerful-storm-is-pounding-northern-california/ "undefined") is leaving [a trail of power outages in its wake](http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/12/11/more-than-15000-pge-customers-wake-up-in-the-dark-as-storm-wallops-northern-california/ "undefined"). More than 21,000 PG&E customers were without power in San Francisco early Thursday morning, CBS reports, and there was no estimate of when the power will be restored. PG&E later said the outage was affecting more than 50,000 people. > [](https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/543086516952907776) > [](https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/543055846151057409) The region is getting drenched by a storm that the National Weather Service [predicted](http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/12/10/california-storm/20187287/ "undefined") would be one of the area’s “strongest storms in terms of wind and rain” in five years. More than four inches of rain had already been reported in Sonoma County before dawn, [the San Francisco _Chronicle_](http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/us/article/Rain-hits-N-California-ahead-of-powerful-storm-5949618.php#/0 "undefined") reports. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3630151/san-francisco-power-storm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3630151/san-francisco-power-storm/"},"headline":"Thousands Lose Power in San Francisco","datePublished":"2014-12-11T17:10:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:46:59.709Z","description":"More than 50,000 affected by storm blackouts","url":"https://time.com/3630151/san-francisco-power-storm/","keywords":["weather"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a9e62faaf16e04c/69876e45cd68486617098918/san-francisco-flood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a9e62faaf16e04c/69876e45cd68486617098918/san-francisco-flood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"California Storms","caption":"California Storms","creditText":"Eric Risberg—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3630151/san-francisco-power-storm/","name":"Thousands Lose Power in San Francisco"}}]}] ```