Yesterday, the lights went out across San Francisco’s Sunset District as an unplanned PG&E outage cut electricity to thousands of homes and businesses, plunging busy intersections into darkness and knocking out traffic signals. The blackout slammed into the late-afternoon rush, forcing some restaurants and small shops to close early and leaving residents scrambling for backup power, not exactly the Friday vibe anyone ordered. Neighbors also reported that pockets of the outage stretched into parts of the Lower Haight.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, PG&E’s online tracker showed more than 7,000 customers without power at one point, and the company classified the disruption as unplanned. Crews worked through the afternoon to restore service across…..