Nearly a Quarter of San Francisco Without Power as Outages Drag On NYT | Top Stories By: Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon 21 December 2025 at 13:19 The widespread outage forced the closure of businesses and transit stations, and led Waymo to suspend its driverless taxi services. Some power was returning late Saturday. © Jeff Chiu/Associated PressA Waymo vehicle idling at an intersection with no operating traffic lights on Saturday.