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Windy Weather Leaves Hundreds Without Power in Marin
Gusts reached nearly 60 miles per hour last night in Woodacre, bringing down trees and knocking out power to many in Marin, but few PG&E customers in Corte Madera.
Hundreds of residents throughout Marin are without power this morning following strong overnight winds that caused outages across the Bay Area.
Larkspur and Corte Madera were largely spared any outages (PG&E is just reporting two customers without power in Corte Madera; no outages are reported in Larkspur).
PG&E's outage map is reporting five outages in Fairfax that have left 66 customers in the dark. There are also 14 customers without power in Ross and eight customers out in Lagunitas-Forest Knolls.
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Pacific Gas & Electric reports there were 11 outages in Mill Valley, impacting 138 customers, that occurred at 12:04 a.m. Monday. There were also four outages in Tam Valley at 8:26 a.m. affecting 61 customers. The outages are awaiting assessment, and there's no estimate at this time as to when power will be restored.
In West Marin, Inverness has 270 PG&E customers without power and Bolinas has 4 outages impacting 119 customers.
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Peak gusts reached nearly 60 miles per hour in Marin, and 75 miles per hour in San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service.
Windy weather was expected to continue throughout Monday in Larkspur, with a forecast of 22 mph winds, according to The Weather Channel.
High winds have reportedly caused power outages to thousands of customers in the Bay Area. As of 7 a.m., roughly 4,600 customers in San Francisco were without power; another nearly 4,300 were in the dark in Redwood City; and about .
Another nearly 1,700 customers were powerless in both Belmont and West Menlo Park, according to PG&E; more than 1,200 customers in Daly City were affected; and just less than 1,000 customers were without power in Sunnyvale, Vallejo and Menlo Park.
--Jessica Mullins and Bay City News contributed to this report. Copyright© 2013 by Bay City News, Inc. -- Republication, Rebroadcast or any other Reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited.
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