I searched for previous stories on this topic and found nothing.
There are all kinds of TV news stories tonight about PG&E blocking power for 800,000 California residents due to fire potential warnings… IOW, Santa Ana winds are on the way. PG&E’s website has been reportedly deluged. All the potential outage maps I found via TV news reports were useless. If you live in northern California near a hilly vegetated region, you are probably potentially going to lose power starting around midnight tonight. I live in the lower Oakland Hills. I could not determine based on any of the TV-furnished maps whether I might be included. Areas directly to the East of me (Orinda, Moraga, Lafayette) definitely ARE.
Maybe other Bay Area and greater N. CA residing Kossacks have found better resources. Somehow I found a story that included the map with affected regions throughout California, and it worked, was expandable (zoom in) and I could move it all over northern California (e.g., to check out my sister, who lives in Lakeport). Maybe folks who have signed up for PG&E alerts have already been alerted.
Highlighted below is the heading and message arrived at by clicking the this link: projects.sfchronicle.com/…
I exited the site, then from Safari’s open page, entered that IRL, and it worked.
There is a place below the below quote that lets you enter your address, and it comes back with an “affected” or “not affected” message, and then the map appears with purple regions shown as areas that will potentially be without power starting midnight tonight, through who knows when.
Bay Area Outage Map
PG&E confirmed Tuesday afternoon that it will preemptively shut off power to nearly 800,000 customers across 34 counties in California after midnight Wednesday morning. The map of potential outages now includes Marin County.
Enter your address to see if your house falls inside one of PG&E's shut-off zones.
Oct. 8, 2019 | Updated: Oct. 8, 2019 4:00 p.m.
Good luck.