A power outage struck parts of San Francisco including the Lower Haight at 11:59am today, and as of this posting (5:20pm) power had not yet been fully restored.
The San Francisco Examiner reports that about 400 customers remain without power, down from a peak of 7,100.
According to PG&E’s website, the cause of the outage is “unknown,” the estimated time of restoration is “not available,” and the status of the outage is “awaiting assessment.” In other words, PG&E’s website is currently useless.
Update: 4/25/10, 11:10pm
CBS5.com reports that the outage now only affects 83 customers, was caused by a failed transformer, and should be fully resolved by 1:30am.