San Francisco power outage hits financial hub for hours

By Alexandria Sage
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A power outage hit about 90,000 customers on Friday morning in San Francisco, closing shops and snarling traffic in the city’s technology and finance center as a large swath of the financial district lost electricity.
The utility PG&E Corp reported a fire at a San Francisco substation and a series of outages began affecting the city shortly after 9 a.m. (Noon ET). It said on Twitter that it expected power to be restored for most custo