Strong winds caused numerous power outages around Sonoma County Monday night ? the biggest one knocked out power to about 3,000 customers in Windsor, said PG&E officials.
At about 11 p.m. in Windsor, two power lines smacked together from a gust and caused a short, said David Eisenhauer, PG&E spokesman.
About 2,300 Windsor customers had power restored by midnight. Another 700 were back by 12:30 p.m. and a remaining seven customers were in the dark until about 2 a.m.
Several other, much shorter outages occurred from one end of the county to the other.
Almost 100 customers in the Calistoga Road-St. Helena Road area in east Santa Rosa were out briefly due to wind.
In the west county, at about 9:45 p.m., a tree branch knocked down a line in Monte Rio. That cut power to 36 customers who were in the dark for about two hours, Eisenhauer said.
?We knew it was going to be windy, it was a little more than we expected it to be,? he said.
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