“We need the food that we lost.” Low-income families still reeling from blackouts
“Pacific Gas & Electric turned off power to Ana Patricia Rios’ neighborhood in Sonoma County for eight days in October, three at the beginning of the month and five near the end. The mother of three young boys watched twice as nearly all of the food in her refrigerator spoiled. She threw out at least $500 worth of meat, fruit, vegetables, salsas and other food that would have supplied her family with months of meals.
“It’s a big impact because we need the food that we lost,” Rios said in Spanish, two days after the lights finally came back on”