San Jose Man Who Lit Candle During Wind Storm Power Outage Likely Caused Apartment Fire
Strong winds may have inadvertently caused a fire that damaged an apartment unit in South San Jose Tuesday night.
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Strong winds may have inadvertently caused a fire that damaged an apartment unit in South San Jose Tuesday night.
Twitter users took to social media to document some of the destruction from Tuesday's powerful Bay Area windstorm.
PG&E crews have restored power to 98 percent of the 195,500 customers who had outages in the Bay Area during Tuesday's strong windstorm, utility officials said Wednesday.
All eastbound lanes of Interstate Highway 80 that were closed due to downed trees and power lines in Vallejo have reopened Tuesday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Tuesday's high winds are wreaking havoc on BART tracks causing complete shutdowns in San Francisco's Mission, and in the East Bay.
Lands parched by a three-year drought just a few months ago are now seeing an explosion of both poisonous and edible mushrooms.
Winds gusting near 50 miles per hour or more toppled trees and PG&E power lines across Interstate 80, near Redwood in Vallejo, shutting down the entire freeway in both directions during the afternoon commute while PG&E crews turned off electricity to the downed wires and firefighters put out a small fire sparked by the damage.
Around 24,000 customers have lost power in the Bay Area Tuesday due to high winds, PG&E officials said.
The 60 mile per hour wind gusts due to slam the Bay Area overnight Tuesday could topple more trees, down power lines, and again plunge tens of thousands of people into darkness as wind shrieks through the trees around them. And behind that comes a blast of Arctic air, plunging temperatures down to the mid 20s.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Tuesday for all coastal and valley locations of the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Santa Cruz County.
A storm system combined with wind gusts up to 55 mph and temperatures in the mid-20s will create uncomfortably frigid conditions across the San Francisco Bay Area for New Year's Eve.
Winds gusting above 40 miles per hour and massive sneaker waves, significantly larger than the preceding swell are forecast to pound Northern California as a cold front roars in Christmas Eve.
While the rains have passed for a while, the earth continues to move in the Bay Area as a large hillside along a parking lot at Lands End in San Francisco started to slide on Monday.
Two Bay Area counties may get help from the state to repair and reconstruct highways after Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in those counties Monday.
The Bay Area almost never sees a white Christmas, but a chance of rain forecast for Wednesday could mean a wet Christmas.
The December storms that struck the Bay Area and the rest of the state has uncovered fossils on beaches and mountains along the Pacific Coast that date back anywhere from 5,000 to 10 million years.
As the Bay Are gets a break Saturday from rainy weather, the city of San Francisco is getting a better picture of the damage done during December's downpours.
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted to declare a state of emergency Friday after recent rain and windstorms caused an estimated $3.4 million in damage.
With another storm passing through the Bay Area on Friday, San Francisco is in the midst of its 7th wettest December on record.
Rescue crews used a jet ski and a rubber boat to rescue four occupants of a vehicle that became stranded in floodwater in west Sonoma County Friday morning.
The California Highway Patrol is reporting two mud and rock slides on State Highway 1 Friday afternoon.
Friday morning's rains toppled yet another problematic ficus tree, this time on top of a Lyft driver's car in the Marina District.
The final in a series of soaking storms has forced another flood advisory in the North Bay.
New numbers show the percentage of the state in the exceptional drought category has dropped from just over 55 percent last week to 32 percent.
