'King Tides' Hitting Bay Area Shores, Flooding Streets
A surge Thursday of unusually high tides flooded roadways and parking lots along the Bay Area coast.
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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.
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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.
Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on Wednesday, inundating parts of a mostly rural area southeast of New Orleans with drenching rains and fierce winds.
Fourteen households displaced by Tuesday's water main break in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood were being allowed to go home Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the city's Public Utilities Commission said.
Students were evacuated from a school in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood, where a major water main break has shut down streets and flooded homes.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission was working Friday morning to clean up a mess in Fisherman's Wharf caused by a water main that ruptured earlier in the day.
A section of an Emeryville street was closed Wednesday morning after a water main break, while a second, smaller water main ruptured in Berkeley Wednesday.
Crews shut off a water main in Menlo Park after it broke spilled water into the streets for nearly three hours Monday morning, police said.
A storm system has brought heavy rains and winds to the Bay Area and Northern California, flooding roads and downing trees.
A vehicle traveling down the crooked block of San Francisco's Lombard Street struck a fire hydrant Friday afternoon, causing water to flood into some nearby homes.
The Lower Silver Creek project will help with flooding int he area, which has been an issue for 3,800 properties.
