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Posted: 8:08 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012
KTVU.com
BAY AREA —
A wild week of weather in the Bay Area continued Saturday, after heavy rain and wind caused power outages, flooded roads and led to car crashes and flight delays the day before.
Most of the Bay Area was under a flash flood watch through the weekend as powerful storms continued to make their way through.
San Francisco saw an inch of rain Friday and was expecting another Saturday night.
The last storm cut power to hundreds in the city, with PG&E crews having to restore power to 300 customers in Bernal Heights alone Friday morning.
Also, police closed part of McAllister St after a tree fell onto a car.
The Department Of Public Works reported tree branches down in several districts.
"I have a feeling we're going to just keep going and going and going on this,” said Rachel Gordon, San Francisco Dept. of Public Works spokeswoman.
“We're going to have a lot of clearing out to do of terrains, sweeping up of leaves and things."
Leaves and debris have been clogging up drains and flooding intersections.
At Ocean Beach, flooding closed down a portion of the great highway for the third time in two weeks.
Public works says it has given away about 400 sandbags, and has plenty more to distribute as folks get ready for the next round of rain.
Sandbags were also available in Pleasant Hill ahead of the next big storm.
There were no significant delays at SFO to report Saturday morning, but that wasn't the case the day before when weather caused some flights to be delayed as much as 3 hours.
Airlines tried to minimize delays by consolidating flights, but that led to a spike in cancellations.
"I've walked around the airport and seen the museum and international terminal," said one traveler who wished not to be named.
Passengers were still being advised to check the status of their flight before heading to the airport.
A break in the weather has helped water levels drop on streams and rivers in the North Bay.
Low-lying areas flooded yesterday, and we could see it happen again tomorrow.
The Petaluma River rose within a few feet of topping its banks.
In Guerneville, the Russian River rose 14 feet in 24 hours.
"There were 14 steps right there. Now there are 1,2,3,4,5,6 so it's come 7-8 steps in five hours," said Guerneville resident Ron Aniot.
The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for the Russian River in Guerneville, and along the Napa River near St. Helena.
The rivers were expected to peak Sunday as several more inches of rain were expected to fall.
Firefighters were warning people to have a radio, flashlights and blankets ready in case power goes out.
The Santa Cruz Mountains were soaked, too.
Trees were falling and taking out power lines, causing outages.
The saturated ground is too weak in some spots to hold trees upright.
A tree forced a closure between Felton and Ben Lomond.
KTVU found one family in the area using candles as a source of light since their power was knocked out by a utility pole that broke.
"It's not really scary until it's right in your back yard,” said Ashlei Simmons, who lives near Ben Lomond.
Cars were turned around as PG&E crews moved power lines off the highway and fixed the broken pole.
The mountains could see rock slides and mud slides, too.
A flash flood watch is in effect in the Santa Cruz Mountains through eight o'clock tomorrow night.
Hundreds of PG&E customers have yesterday's storm to thank for their lack of power.
As of Saturday morning, there were 205 outages in the south bay, 160 in the North Bay, 100 in the East Bay, and 90 on the Peninsula.
There were also 20 outages in the Santa Cruz area.
A storm-related outage that affected more than 2,200 customers in San Jose Saturday morning had been fixed by 7 a.m.
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