PG&E to sever power to tens-of-thousands of customers once again as fears over wildfires grow

Upwards of 97,000 residential customers across quite a few counties in CA may be going dark starting from pretty much now through Monday.

According to the Los Angeles Times (we won’t link because there’s a paywall there, and that’s annoying), PG&E is once again prepping to dismantle power as fears over massive wildfires grow. This would make this at least the 2nd if not the 3rd time in the past several months that residents of California have been subjected to this.

According to officials, the counties hit would include Napa and at least 16 nearby counties. It remains unclear exactly whether or not this would be a short outage or a longer one. Millions of acres otherwise have burned across Northern California and beyond.