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Wow, a "severe lightning storm" in the bay area? My friend mentioned that on facebook too. Not an every-day occurrence.

In SF proper, we saw the 'lightning', but not the 'severe'.

It could have been worse in Fremont, I suppose, or that might just be a bit of puffery being used to explain the outage.

Nope, I was in Fremont, and saw maybe 1 flash all night. Heard no thunder.