Tom Hyde, left, buys a can of fuel for his Coleman camp stove from Kim Scheffer at a Village True Value Hardware store in Santa Rosa, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Pacific Gas & Electric has cut power to more than half a million customers in Northern California hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy weather throughout the region. (John Burgess/The Press Democrat via AP)

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Lights Out | Northern California deals with unprecedented power outages

Tom Hyde buys a can of fuel for his Coleman camp stove from Kim Scheffer at a Village True Value Hardware store in Santa Rosa. (John Burgess / Press Democrat)

Shift supervisor James Quinn walks through a darkened CVS Pharmacy as downtown Sonoma, Calif., remains without power on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Pacific Gas and Electric has cut power to more than half a million customers in Northern California hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy weather throughout the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Shift supervisor James Quinn walks through a darkened CVS Pharmacy as downtown Sonoma remains without power. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)

Carlos Lama of Bayside Cafe, which was among businesses to lose power due to PG&E’s public safety power shutoff, uses an LED lamp and light from his phone at the counter of the restaurant in Sausalito. (Alan Dep / Marin Independent Journal)

Jamie Olivas transfers items from a Safeway store on Calistoga Road into a refrigerated trailer in order to keep them cold during a power outage in Santa Rosa, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Pacific Gas & Electric has cut power to more than half a million customers in Northern California hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy weather throughout the region. (Christopher Chung/The Press Democrat via AP)

Jamie Olivas transfers items from a Safeway store in Santa Rosa into a refrigerated trailer to keep them cold. (Christopher Chung / The Press Democrat)

A sign at Mary's Pizza Shack informs customers of their closure due to a PG&E power shutdown in Sonoma, Calif., Wednesday, October 9, 2019. Pacific Gas & Electric has cut power to more than half a million customers in Northern California hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy weather throughout the region. (Christopher Chung/The Press Democrat via AP)

A sign at Mary’s Pizza Shack informs customers of their closure due to a PG&E power shutdown in Sonoma. (Christopher Chung / The Press Democrat)

A gas station marquee and traffic lights remain dark as children cross Highway 12 during a power outage in Boyes Hot Springs, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Pacific Gas and Electric has cut power to more than half a million customers in Northern California hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy weather throughout the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

A gas station marquee and traffic lights remain dark as children cross Highway 12 during a power outage in Boyes Hot Springs. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)

People wait in line for gas at Robinson Enterprises in Nevada City, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019 Millions of people were poised to lose electricity throughout northern and central California after Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced Tuesday it would shut off power in the largest preventive outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines.(Elias Funez/The Union via AP)

People wait in line for gas at Robinson Enterprises in Nevada City. (Elias Funez / Associated Press)

Local residents pick up meals from El Coyote food truck, one of the few food trucks open in the area, in Sonoma, California, on October 9, 2019, after the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) utility company began planned power outages. - Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began on October 9 as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. (Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small / AFP) (Photo by BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL/AFP via Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Residents pick up meals from El Coyote food truck, one of the few food trucks open in Sonoma. (Brittany Hosea-Small / AFP/Getty Images)

Restaurant owner Emily Schiffman checks her phone behind a candle-lit bar at Reel and Brand in Sonoma. (Brittany Hosea-Small / AFP/Getty Images)

Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candlelit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma. (Brittany Hosea-Small / AFP/Getty Images)

Armando Espinoza delivers paper products to a cafe in downtown Sonoma, Calif., where power is turned off, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Pacific Gas and Electric has cut power to more than half a million customers in Northern California hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy weather throughout the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Armando Espinoza delivers paper products to a cafe in downtown Sonoma during the power outage. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)