Power Restored to Most in San Francisco After Massive Outage

Newsmax ^ | December 21, 2025

[Navy Patriot]

Power was restored Sunday morning to the bulk of the 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco impacted by a massive outage on Saturday that caused major disruptions in the city.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s outage map showed more than 20,000 customers still remained without electricity as of 5 a.m. PST, while crews worked to fully restore service.

The outage, which occurred shortly after 1 p.m. on Saturday, left a large swath of the northern part of the city without power that began to grow in size. At its peak, the outage represented roughly one-third of the utility company’s customers in the city.

Social media posts and local media reported mass closures of restaurants and shops and darkened street lights and Christmas decorations on Saturday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said on X there were “significant transit disruptions” happening citywide and urged residents to avoid nonessential travel and treat down traffic signals as four-way stops. Waymo, the operator of driverless ride-hailing vehicles, suspended its services. At least one video posted on social media appeared to show a Waymo vehicle stopped in the middle of an intersection.

Some of the blackouts were caused by a fire that broke out inside a PG&E substation at 8th and Mission streets, fire officials posted on X at about 3:15 p.m. The full cause remained under investigation.

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[Navy Patriot]

San Francisco city government announced that in order to prevent further outages, Homos and Trannys will have to recharge their electric sex toys on alternate days.

Trannys immediately demanded First Charge.

[Jeff Chandler]

Third world.

[kawhill]

“Power was restored Sunday morning to the bulk of the 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco impacted by a massive outage on Saturday that caused major disruptions in the city.”

That’d be a helluva hoot wouldn’t it? Watching Nancy Pelosi climbing a power line pole.

[Skybird]

But was Queen Nancy’s ice cream melted?/s

[Secret Agent Man]

I figured they’d just start a taxpayer funded program to install solar on the perverts houses so they could charge their apparatuses independent of the grid, seeing they are critical devices for these alphabet groups.

[CFW]

All the self-driving Waymo cars didn’t know what to do when the street lights went dark. They froze in place.

Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage.

[Navy Patriot]

All the self-driving Waymo cars didn’t know what to do when the street lights went dark. They froze in place.

Apparently so, Waymo probably lost access to the street map database and could not even safely park at a curb.

[AZJeep]

There is not too much info, but since it was in afternoon, it could be again the case of too much power (it is getting more and more common).
When the sun is up, we now have too much power, all thanks to solar.
Then, when some substation went down, the rest of the grid got suddenly even more power and probably died because of it.

[pa_dweller]

Wow! I had no idea - since our internet’s been down two days from wind damage.