FREMONT — Northern California utility PG&E had about almost 2,900 workers ready Wednesday to deal with a monster winter storm that was threatening to be among the worst in Bay Area history.
The storm, which already had brought emergency proclamations and hazard warnings for flooding and miserable winds throughout the region, was expected to be at its heaviest from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday.
At 8 a.m., 632 Bay Area customers were without power, according to the utility. Of those, 225 were in the East Bay, 144 were it the South Bay, 125 were in San Francisco and 57 were in the Peninsula. Pacific Gas & Electric said it expected