Nearly 9K Without Power In Walnut Creek

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Outages were impacting PG&E customers from Old Oak Park to downtown and Heather Farm Park.

Maggie Fusek , Patch Staff

WALNUT CREEK, CA — Nearly 9,000 customers were without power Tuesday evening in Walnut Creek because of weather-related outages, according to PG&E.

As of 5 p.m., there were 2,175 impacted customers in the Old Oak Park and Tice Valley areas and 400 impacted customers in downtown Walnut Creek, the PG&E outage webpage showed.

Another 1,921 customers were without power in the Heather Farm Park area and 335 customers were impacted in the Rancho San Miguel area.

An outage impacting 4,439 started at 4:39 p.m. in the Lower Lakewood area.

The outages come amid winds that have reached or exceeded 50 mph in much of the region. As of 4 p.m., there were 100,000 customers without power across the Bay Area.

The National Weather Service said Mount Umunhum in Santa Clara County had the highest wind speed reported in the Bay Area on Tuesday, at 78 mph. Forecasters say the high winds are expected until at least 9 p.m.

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.