Semi-Truck Collison: Deharo might be closed up to 24 hours, from 20th to 19th to restore utilities. #potrerohill pic.twitter.com/CBPkN9XmQy

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A semi-truck crashed into a utility pole on De Haro near 20th Street this morning, reports The San Francisco Examiner, knocking over the pole and cutting power to 11,000 residents in the process across the Mission and Potrero Hill.

In a photo taken by SFPD, it appears the bed of the truck came to a rest fully blocking De Haro Street. The police note that the street, between 20th and 19th, could be closed until tomorrow morning — depending on how long it takes PG&E to restore the damaged utilities.

Sidebar: This SFist editor was one of the many to lose power because of this, but it was restored as of 11:15 a.m.

Related: Exploding Transformer, Errant Raccoon Knock Out Power To Thousands Of San Franciscans

Huge swaths of San Francisco found themselves without power Saturday, after two separate incidents — one caused by a transformer that exploded, the other caused by a raccoon — took out lines across the city.

At 7:45 a.m. Saturday, a PG&E transformer (the power-distribution variety, not a Robot in Disguise) exploded in Bernal Heights. Two men were injured in the blast, reports the SF Chronicle:

Robert Antonelli, 55, was at the window of his Heyman Avenue home about 7:45 a.m. talking to a friend, Manuel Cruz, 34, of Daly City, who was standing outside, when he heard what sounded like a firecracker’s wick sizzling.

“And the next thing, ka-boom,” Antonelli said. “It exploded like a bomb. It blew things off my shelf. I flew back into my bed. Debris flew back into my room.”

Antonelli said Cruz, who was standing next to the transformer, was knocked out, and both men were taken to San Francisco General Hospital. Antonelli said he was treated for light burns on his face and released, but Cruz was more seriously burned and remained hospitalized.

According to PG&E spokesman Matt Nauman, the blast was caused by "an equipment failure that occurred while a utility crew was at Wool Street and Eugenia Avenue, working to fix a power failure that began about 7:30 a.m."

“We will be conducting a full review into this incident to determine what caused the outtage and what caused the injuries," Nauman says.

About 4,000 lost power due to the explosion, and it took PG&E all day to get them back online, with 60 still without power as of 9 p.m., CBS5 reports.

Then, at 7:59 p.m. Saturday, 3,360 more households in the Inner Sunset and near Golden Gate Park lost power when, according to PG&E spokesperson J.D. Guidi, "a raccoon came in contact with power lines at 17th Avenue and Lawton Street."

Guidi told KRON4 that the raccoon "was found on top of a power line causing the outage." He didn't offer an update on the beast's condition, but we're all educated people and can probably hazard a pretty solid guess.

By 9:26, all customers who'd been left in the dark by the raccoon incident had their power restored, and all raccoons who'd been hoping to keep us in the dark so they could continue to attack us and our pets retreated to their lairs, intent on finding a new, better way to cause our demise.

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Oh dear. An estimated 5,000-7,000 PG&E customers are without power this morning. The problem began last night, with some customers experiencing periodic blackouts. However, according to PG&E, the outage began at 8:44 AM today. There is no estimated time for power to be restored. This is affecting customers from Laurel Heights to Haight-Ashbury. Sorry, folks.

This morning's power disaster care of Pacific Gas and Electric comes on the heels of last night's outage that hit over 10,000 San Francisco customers. Ugh.

An estimated 5,000 people are without power this morning care of PG&E. According to this map, four outages resulted in a major outage for many folks. Power should be restored... soon, hopefully.

According to PG&E, they are "assessing the cause of [Fremont's] outage."

Stay strong, Fremont.

Update: Some power has been restored.

[via KRON 4 News]

So says PG&E via their twitter feed just before 3 p.m. Friday afternoon. PG&E doesn't yet have an estimate for when the power will be back on, so if you were looking forward to heading home to the neighborhood, microwaving a hot pocket and firing up your TiVo, might we suggest alternate plans for the evening? No word yet on what is causing the outage, but we'll update when we know more.

Update: As of about 4:30 p.m, PG&E says the majority of the customers affected have their power back on, but some 1,500 customers are still in the dark.

Tonight's storm brought several power outages to the Bay Area. Sunset, Richmond, South San Francisco, and Daly City have all been affected by sudden darkness. Most notably, according to Emergency_In_SF, "over 6k customers are without power in the West end of Taraval district."

Also: "[There] is now a much bigger outage. Problem at Daly City sub station affecting 37k SF residents. No ETA for repair."

And last but not least: "There is now another power outage in Richmond district affecting 5k residents.No ETA for repair."

Following Out Magazine's 'Power 50' list, which failed to mention a single popular powerful San Francisco-based homosexual, The Advocate (the bookish bottom to Out's circuit party top) also came out with their annual 'Forty Under 40' issue this week. And, yet again, much to our dismay, no one on said list resides in Baghdad by the Bay.

A few gays landing on this allegedly esteemed list: political strategist Chad Griffin; International Ms. Leather 2009 Lamalani; that loud trainer from The Biggest Loser who hawks questionable weight-loss remedies on daytime TV, Jillian Michaels; Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears; and a gaggle of fresh-faced boys Advocate EIC Jon Barrett clearly wants to fuck.

The closest San Francisco came to making the list was by way of Shannon Wentworth (CEO/founder of eco-friendly lesbian travel company Sweet) of Oakland.

Out Magazine's annual 'Power 50' list came out, if you will, last week. Her Holiness Ellen DeGeneres rules the gays this year, taking the top spot. Politician Barney Frank, Anderson Cooper, butch on-air personality Rachel Maddow, and American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert round out the top 5.

Other notable homosexuals making the list? The "internet's closet king," Matt Drudge; Gawker's Nick Denton; Andrew Sullivan; some dude involved with the Sex and the City franchise; ACLU's Anthony D. Romer; Marc Jacobs; loads of New York people you've never heard of before; and the sage who advised us to cut up debit/credit cards, Suze Orman.

Notable San Francisco/Bay Area gays making the list? No one. In a city famous for housing LGBT ilk from far and wide, we're surprised to see a glaring lack of SF representation (e.g., Sen. Mark Leno, Supe. Bevan Dufty, John Waters, Juanita More and Heklina) on the list. Which is odd. Or... is it? Are there any queer folk from SF that you think deserve attention on the print publication's fancy-homosexuals list?

Previously: We had this exact same problem back in 2007.

We're getting reports of a power outage in San Francisco this morning. On readers comments "Just came from Lyon & Grove. Apparently the power is out in the neighborhood because a Muni bus struck a power pole."

And a tipster tells SFist, "Bus (21) headed inbound hit a power pole at baker. Power out for the last hour. A few blocks taped off. " We're also hearing that 2 to 3 blocks on Hayes are blocked off.

We'll update as soon as we know more.

Update 10:39: SF MTA spokesperson Kristen Holland tells SFist: "At 8:45 a.m., the pole of the power unit on top of a 21 Hayes trolley bus traveling inbound at Hayes and Baker snagged the overhead wire which caught a PG&E wire. Our scene cleared at 9:58 a.m."

Setting himself up for countless "hot air" punchlines, Gavin Newsom "is calling for windmills throughout the city," reports KCBS. An estimated 29 of them might pop up in SF sometime in the very near future. Or not. (Although he'd like to "streamline the permit process" to get them up ASAP.) Anyway, Newsom goes on to said that the wind turbines cold be put on historical landmarks. he also emotes, "wind is a rural or suburban phenomenon and not necessarily an urban phenomenon ... We believe wind needs to be part of the urban mix of renewables. Our goal is to have 50 megawatts of renewable energy being generated within the city and county of San Francisco over the next few decades."

Last night in San Francisco's notoriously gay Castro neighborhood, 2,8000 were rewarded with forgiving, soft candlelight after a power outage hit the area for about an hour or so. The cause of the outage? A Mylar balloon. According to reports, "PG&E spokesman Andrew Souvall said the outage happened around 7:50 p.m. when a Mylar balloon hit electric wires." What's more, "[t]he incident caused a manhole cover to dislodge at Market Street and Duboce Avenue." [insert manhole/Castro joke here] Power was restored to the area around 9 p.m.

Since we're reportedly under the breeziness of "hurricane"-like winds, can we name the storm? If so, can we name it "Mary-Kate," then? Great.

In addition to shutting down the Richmond Bridge, closing the ferries, screwing with the chi of (the) 101, and getting our demin damp, Mary-Kate has so far also caused over 518,000 residents in the Bay Area to lose power. (Including the Whole Foods on Fourth Street. Bah.) A PG&E spokesperson said that some of the lost power could take as long as tomorrow morning to restore.

Damn you, Mary-Kate.

Update: In case you don't know, or have since succumb to a fatal infection while waiting for a bus, Muni has some serious service disruptions today. A (truncated) list of Muni's weather-related SNAFUs after the jump.

We just received word that for the past two or three days (!?), 17th Street has been without power from at least Valencia up to Dolores. Anyone else have any word of this supposed outage? Seeing as how this is one attractive and expensive strip of real estate, right at the nexus of two neighborhoods, this is of the utmost importance.

An SFister writes to us from the dark, telling us that 17th Street "has been without power for the past day and a half -- everything from Valencia to Dolores. No hot water either, or at least in my apartment. I did a quick scan of the news but don't see anything, which is weird considering it's only, like, one of the busiest thorough fairs thoroughfares in the friggin city." No hot water? Eeps! We're going to go ahead and blame teenagers for this one.

So...any reports of a PG&E-related powerlessness? A concentrated area of unbathed homosexuals, hipsters, or nouveau riche? Let us know!