The outage began in the early afternoon, affecting northern neighborhoods such as Richmond, the Presidio and the Golden Gate Park area, and then spread to other areas.
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Blackout in Stan Francisco. 130 thousand residents without electricity
Stopped autonomous cars led to numerous traffic jams. The City Department of Crisis Management reported serious disruptions to public transport and appealed to residents to avoid unnecessary journeys and be particularly careful at intersections with broken signals.
As reported by Fox News, Due to the blackout, Waymo has temporarily suspended its autonomous driving service. As reported by “The Mirror”, the brightest point of the famous Haight-Ashbury area turned out to be the Fun on Haight toy store, which inexplicably avoided a power outage. His employee admitted in a conversation with a journalist that he “only found out about the blackout from customers.” Although the situation was unusual, he recalled that in the past there had been outages in the region lasting up to two days.
The daily adds that despite the failure, there was also, among others, a liquor store or several restaurants trying to serve guests who decided to eat out due to a power outage.
The network operator announced that by 11.30 p.m. (approx. 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, Polish time), power was restored to approximately 95,000 recipientshowever, nearly 35 thousand it was still without electricity. Repair works continued throughout the night, and the operator announced further actions to fully remove the failure.
