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Residents of Santa Rosa’s Bennett Valley neighborhood are having their patience tested by PG&E. On Tuesday, a meeting organized by the utility company to discuss frequent power outages was cut short by a blackout. The 70-person crowd gathered at the Bennett Valley Grange went home after suddenly finding themselves in darkness. Power failures in the rural area have spiked in the past year, leaving more than 800 households without electricity for anywhere between a few minutes and a full day. Tuesday night’s outage impacted 845 customers and lasted less than an hour.