Water Line Break Floods Streets In SF's Lower Haight
Crews were working to repair a broken water line in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood Tuesday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
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Crews were working to repair a broken water line in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood Tuesday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
Caltrans is blaming a group of metal thieves for flooding on Highway 87 during stormy weather Friday morning. The agency said thieves took copper wiring from a sump pump that was supposed to keep water off the road.
All lanes of westbound state Highway 24 in Oakland have reopened after a fatal crash blocked the roadway for more than an hour during Friday's morning commute, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Governor Brown seems fairly confident about the safety of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, some might say too confident given the unanswered questions about all the problems we've had with the new bridge.
Southbound lanes between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard were shut down
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for the North Bay until 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon as another storm system drenches the region.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Sonoma County. The warning is in effect until 7:30 p.m. Residents should not attempt to cross swiftly flowing water.
he National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for Marin and Sonoma Counties Saturday until 10:45 a.m. as a heavy band of rain moves through, swelling urban and small streams.
Thursday morning's wet weather was just a taste of what's to come, as uncommonly dry conditions suddenly change to up to 7 inches of Bay Area rain in some locations.
A U.S. Highway 101 off-ramp near Mill Valley is closed because of high-tide flooding, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Mineta San Jose International Airport's Terminal A was operating normally Tuesday morning following a water main break that partially shut down the terminal on Monday, an airport spokeswoman said.
A California Highway Patrol typo resulted in a "Floosing" warning along the wet 101 freeway late Wednesday morning.
A water main break has flooded streets in downtown Danville Thursday evening.
A 14-inch water main ruptured in Martinez early Thursday morning, sending water gushing down streets in a neighborhood near downtown, a city engineer said.
After reopening briefly Wednesday morning, Oakland police headquarters has been closed to the public again until further notice because of water damage caused by a plumbing problem, a police spokeswoman said.
The Oakland Police Department headquarters were closed to the public Tuesday after overnight flooding, a police officer said.
As California endures one of its driest winters, on record, some state water managers are focused on the opposite end of the precipitation spectrum -- the one in five residents who live in regions susceptible to catastrophic flooding.
Nearly two dozen homes and a number of cars were damaged by flooding after a water main ruptured in San Francisco's Inner Parkside neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
The Marin Municipal Water District hopes to repair a broken water main in Kentfield by late morning or early Thursday afternoon, a district spokeswoman said.
Employees who work at the flood-damaged Oakland Unified School District administration building are expected to not be able to return to the space until later this spring, a district spokesman said.
Employees arriving for work at the Oakland Unified School District's administration building Tuesday morning discovered that the building had been flooded overnight, a school district spokesman said.
Rainy condition on Christmas Day were expected to continue as a front coming into the San Francisco Bay Area will bring moderate to heavy showers this evening, according to a forecaster for the National Weather Service.
About 36 people who had reported to an evacuation center due to flooding in East Palo Alto returned home late Sunday night, according to a Red Cross spokesman.
A portion of Sand Hill Road near Stanford University in Palo Alto was closed Tuesday morning after a DUI driver struck a fire hydrant that flooded the roadway, according to police.
