30,000-plus PG&E Bay Area customers are without power as frosty storms loom

(Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) PG&E crew member works to restore power to a line near downtown San Jose after a palm frond fell on the utility’s equipment this week.

PG&E crews toiled Wednesday night to restore power to tens of thousands of the utility’s customers in the Bay Area after ferocious winds whipped through the region this week.

As of 6 p.m. Wednesday, approximately 35,400 PG&E customers in the Bay Area remained without power, the utility reported.

The lack of power — and the ability to run heating systems in the affected residences — materialized just ahead of a freeze warning that

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