Widespread storm-related damage was reported across the Bay Area and Central Coast on Thursday, as residents awoke Christmas morning to multiple downed trees, power outages, flooding, and other storm impacts.
Pacific Gas and Electric power outages totaled in the tens of thousands again on Thursday. Some 65,000 people were without power on Thursday morning; the outages were reduced to about 28,500 by nighttime, with about 8,000 of those located in Sonoma County.
PG&E officials said crews had restored power to over 383,000 customers since the series of storms began late Tuesday night, which followed major outages from substation fires in San Francisco and Saratoga…