Remember the big blackout in SF? And how we were curious about why the ballet had generators and the rest of the neighborhood was in the darkness for days?

Turns out the mayor personally requested for it for his daughter’s performance

sfstandard.com/2026/02/12/pge-…

#SanFrancisco #PGE

Lurie requested PG&E restore power to opera before daughter’s ‘Nutcracker’ performance

At a hearing about December’s PG&E blackout, CEO Sumeet Singh said the mayor pushed for power at the opera house, while swaths of the city remained dark.

^{Gabe Greschler (The San Francisco Standard)}