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CA utility crews scramble to return power after storm

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Wave after wave of lightning -- lit up the night giving the Bay Area -- show usually seen on the fourth of July.

Those really scary like I'm not used to light lighten our hands -- discount problems here almost twenty years I've never -- like that.

The National Weather Service says at least 750.

Bolts of lightning struck ground generated by strong late season storm system and warm ocean temperatures.

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Still the impact was felt all along the Bay Area power grid.

At least 25000 people lost power as the bulls brought down wires and Friday at least twenty by pieces that PG -- equipment along the peninsula.

Our equipment operates anywhere from 4000 at 34000 volts.

It's about one billion.

Billion with a B bolts that suddenly go into that system with them like when a lightning.

Strikes a piece of our equipment like to do this slid off a transformer and scorched several others in South San Francisco.

Crews worked today to replace this enormous -- now transformer that serves a business park building.

PG and he says it's -- year old it department -- two huge waves of lightning strikes in real time.

Enabling it to dispatch crews to service the -- after that danger had passed.

It's actually held up extremely well especially considering with how intense this lightning storm one.