Large swaths of the Midpeninsula were without power on Tuesday and some remain without power on Thursday, with outages blamed on the gusty storm that’s knocking down trees all over the Bay Area.

As of 10 a.m. on Thursday, PG&E reported continued power outages in Menlo Park, with residents still in the dark along Santa Cruz Avenue and throughout the Allied Arts neighborhood. These outages include Hillview Middle School, which has been without power since Tuesday. Classes are open and students are learning through the power outages.

District officials told families that the power went out at Encinal Elementary, Hillview and the district office on March 14, affecting 1,470 students. PG&E expects power to be restored at Hillview by midday tomorrow, March 15, while Encinal and the district office are expected to have power on Monday, March 20.

"While this is not the news we were hoping to receive, we have ironed out our protocols and systems and feel confident that we can continue to remain open for the remainder of the week," Superintendent Kristen Gracia said in a statement.

As of noon on Wednesday, San Mateo County had just under 40,600 PG&E customers without power and projected that 80% of the outages would be fixed in approximately one day.

West of El Camino Real in Atherton, an outage was impacting more than 3,500 PG&E customers all the way up into Redwood City's Emerald Lake Hills area on March 14. The outage was caused by weather, and had shrunk in severity by Wednesday morning, though it was still impacting more than 1,100 customers in Atherton along El Camino Real, and another 1,000 customers in the Emerald Lake and Farm Hills area of Redwood City.

Around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, about 2,000 customers in West Menlo Park were impacted by three separate outages, according to the outage map. By Wednesday morning, two of those outages were still active, impacting more than 1,600 customers with no estimated restoration time.

Nearly 1,500 customers just south of Whipple Avenue in Redwood City, to the west of El Camino Real, were without power as of 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, with an estimated power restoration time of 11 p.m. Another 3,000 customers on both sides of Alameda de Las Pulgas in Redwood City are also without power, with no indication of when the power might come back.

Two eucalyptus trees fell in the parking lot of Little House senior center in Menlo Park. A photo taken at about 12:30 p.m. by MJ Lee shows it landed atop a Volvo. Some drivers exited the lot via the pedestrian walkway to Roble Avenue, Lee said.

On March 14, Menlo Park city staff reported getting 50 calls for service related to downed trees, some causing localized power outages and road closures. Laurel Street was closed between Noel Drive and Willow Road due to a downed power line. Stanford Avenue at Louise Street was also closed, and there is no word on when the streets will reopen.

Traffic signals were out on Willow Road at Gilbert and Coleman avenues, east of Middlefield Road in the Willows neighborhood.

Find road closures on the Zonehaven map, which appear as red circles with a horizontal line, here.

Find updates from the city of Menlo Park, along with a list of steps to take during a power outage and contact information for reporting everything from blocked storm drains to sinkholes, gas leaks to fallen trees, here.

The fierce winds triggered several road closures in Atherton, according to police. The road was closed on Emilie Avenue between Valparaiso and Britton avenues due to wires down. Residents of MacBain and Howard were asked to shelter in place, Atherton police said. Austin Avenue between Atherton and Tuscaloosa avenues was closed due to trees and wires down. Euclid Avenue between Polhemus and Stockbridge avenues was closed due to a downed tree, reopening around 4:15 p.m., police said.

A large tree fell near Portola Valley Town Hall and the Redwood Grove, blocking a path behind Town Hall, town staff said. Public Works was set to begin work on clearing the path and people were advised to cross the field to the main central path through the Town Center.

Also in Portola Valley, a tree fell across the road near 365 Golden Oak Drive with nearby residents asked to detour in other directions along Golden Oak Drive to get in and out of their neighborhoods, according to an alert sent at about 12:23 p.m. A tree fell on Alpine Road near Alpine Inn, with one lane of the road closed, and power lines were down on Los Trancos in the San Mateo County/Palo Alto area. The emergency gate onto Valley Oak has been opened, town officials announced at 3:40 p.m.

As of Wednesday morning, the Atherton Library was still closed due to a power outage, according to a tweet from San Mateo County Libraries.

The Alpine Inn announced on Instagram that due to a power outage, it would close early and reopen Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.

Power was available at Town Center and the library was set to stay open until 8 p.m. Town Committee meetings were to be held at the Historic Schoolhouse.

As of 2:30 p.m., Woodside Road in Redwood City was closed from Bay Road to Middlefield Road, near the U.S. Highway 101 interchange due to downed power lines, and motorists should expect a long closure and use alternate routes, according to San Mateo County's emergency alert system.

"Due to extremely high wind conditions and wet ground, trees are falling throughout San Mateo County," according to a county press release sent at 1:10 p.m. "Multiple roadways are blocked, and freeway lanes are being affected. Power is going out in multiple jurisdictions as well."

It concluded with a reminder to treat non-functional traffic signals as all-way stop signs and asked people to avoid travel if possible. The California Highway Patrol, Caltrans and local fire departments were responding to clear lanes as soon as possible, the release said.

Thousands of Palo Alto Utilities customers also lost power on Tuesday afternoon, including about 1,800 in the Barron Park/Green Acres area and around 700 in the Community Center neighborhood.

Cities south of Mountain View were also seeing big impacts, with thousands of customers in Cupertino and Campbell without power as of 12:30 p.m. More than 7,000 customers lost power in Sunnyvale along Hollenbeck Avenue, with no estimated time of restoration as of 2 p.m.