PG&E will continue to remove on Tuesday to reduce the stress on the electric grid during this heat wave. And while you will not receive a warning in advance, as you would for a fire safety shutdown, you can check a map to see if you will lose power at a certain point on Tuesday afternoon or evening.
Huge Bay Area swaths fall under “Outage Block 50”, which will not show its strength – this includes much of San Francisco and Oakland, and as far north as Santa Rosa. Enter your address here to see if you’ll fall into this “50” block, and if so, you’re all right. (PG&E may prefer to exclude power in dense urban areas for security reasons.)
When a recorder number and a sub-block letter appear when you enter your address, you take the number and the letter, put them together, and that’s the block number you’re looking for in the chart below. At 16:00, for example, blocks 1K to 1R lose power for two to three hours.
As ABC7 notes, if you are in ejection block 6A to 6F, you will fall in the fifth round of outages, and you may not lose any power at all if pressure on the grid is stabilized by 8 pm But then you can be up again.
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