More Than 3,400 Without Power In Bay Area Due To Storm
PG&E reported late Thursday night about 3,400 residents in the Bay Area were still without power do to a inclement weather pushing through the area.
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PG&E reported late Thursday night about 3,400 residents in the Bay Area were still without power do to a inclement weather pushing through the area.
The American Red Cross has opened four emergency shelters in the Greater Bay Area to assist people affected by a storm that is making its way through the Bay Area.
Thursday's major storm that pounded the Bay Area will go down in the record books as one of the wettest days in the region in more than a decade.
Kids hoping for another school rain-out Friday are out of luck in most Bay Area towns. There will be no four-day weekend in Oakland, San Francisco or other major school districts after a storm passed trough early Thursday, forcing the closure of many Bay Area districts.
A section of State Highway 1 in Marin County has collapsed, forcing the closure of all southbound lanes from Muir Beach to Muir Woods Road according to the California Highway Patrol.
Employees in a Safeway supermarket in East San Jose were able to get everyone out of the building Thursday afternoon before a large section of roof collapsed, according to fire officials.
Sonoma County officials are advising residents in low-lying areas near the Russian River to evacuate in advance of expected flooding.
The Safeway store in Healdsburg turned into the hottest new party spot in town, when the parking lot became a lake during Thursday's major storm.
In a photo posted to Twitter, an undercover California Highway Patrol officer is seen pointing a small handgun in a "side grip" style toward a crowd of protesters and a news photographer while he restrains a protester who had reportedly attacked his partner.
During Thursday's massive storm, a Rohnert Park family patrolled the flooded streets of Rohnert Park to find stranded motorists.
Thousands of meals were served on Thursday, thanks in large part to generators, at St. Anthony's in San Francisco.
It's being called #HellaStorm in typical NorCal lingo, and #Stormageddon, albeit sarcastically, but the storm mentioned as the potential "Storm of the Decade" delivered Thursday, flooding homes and businesses, plunging over 100,000 into darkness, delivering waves of nearly 30 feet to Mavericks, winds above 135 miles per hour in the Sierra, and rainfall of several inches. At the peak, 6.6 million Bay Area residents were under an emergency flash flood warning, and the Russian River is still forecast to rise 32 feet by Friday.
Rain and wind gusts from Thursday's powerful Bay Area storm is sticking to the "forecasted script."
Thousands of PG&E customers remain without power in the Bay Area, with the majority of those outages in San Francisco.
As promised, the San Francisco Bay area was smacked with an intense storm Thursday morning, prompting flood advisories downing trees delaying transit and cancelling classes and work for much of the Bay Area.
