Oakland Police Headquarters Closed To Public Because Of Broken Toilet Flooding
The Oakland Police Department headquarters were closed to the public Tuesday after overnight flooding, a police officer said.
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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.
A surge Thursday of unusually high tides flooded roadways and parking lots along the Bay Area coast.
Northern California residents recovering Monday from a series of wet, windy storms likely won't get much of a break as another system is expected to drench the area.
Public transit was still recovering on Sunday afternoon from flooding and power outages caused by the morning's heavy rain.
A flash flood watch will remain in effect for most of the Bay Area extending to the Santa Cruz Mountains throughout the weekend.
Stormy weather on Friday has forced city leaders in Los Gatos to delay the popular Christmas tree lighting for one week.
The second in a series of storms was hitting the Bay Area and Northern California, with heavy rain and wind knocking out power and causing localized flooding.
The second in a series of storms is bringing heavy rain and flood warnings to much of Northern California.
The National Weather Service said rain and snow should begin falling on Wednesday and continue through Sunday. Wind gusts could reach as high as 70 mph in coastal areas.
A series of powerful rainstorms is expected to hit the Bay Area beginning Wednesday morning, dumping up to 8 inches of rain on parts of the region, a National Weather Service forecaster said Monday.
Two separate water mains broke Tuesday morning in Redwood City, flooding two homes and damaging an intersection, a city water department supervisor said.
Officials are working to repair as quickly as possible a water main that broke and flooded a Daly City neighborhood Tuesday.
Crews worked Tuesday evening on the finishing touches of cleanup after a water main break flooded a Daly City neighborhood with mud.
Romney was asked at a presidential debate whether FEMA should be shut down in light of the deficit. Romney replied that FEMA should "absolutely" be shut down. He was asked specifically if that included disaster relief. He replied that it was "immoral" to provide such relief in the face of "larger debts", emphasizing that "it makes no sense at all" to have such programs.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission crews were at the scene of a water main break in the city's Sunset District Monday afternoon, a utility spokeswoman said.
Several clean-ups of homeless encampments along the Guadalupe River and other San Jose creeks over the summer have done little to discourage illegal camping in the city's watersheds, prompting the city to re-evaluate how it deals with homelessness, officials said.
San Francisco city officials threw a party at a school gym in Visitacion Valley last Saturday to celebrate a return to normalcy after a yearlong sewer project wrapped up on Sunnydale Avenue. Three days later, the neighborhood was back in turmoil after a large water main broke.
