Over 237,000 Bay Area residents lose power in April windstorm

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (KGO) -- Hundreds of thousands of PG&E customers lost power overnight causing headaches Friday at many businesses and even doctor's offices.

PG&E says over 237,000 Northern California customers experienced power outages Thursday night and Friday morning due to an April windstorm. By noon Friday, over 28,000 still had no electricity. Over 18,000 of them were in the East Bay.

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