Severe Weather

Petaluma residents next to a new freeway sound-wall say their yards became ponds, with water creeping to their doors, during last month's atmospheric river event.

Rain fell across parts of Northern California on Thursday, and more was possible into the weekend, but forecasts were backing off chances of an atmospheric river event next week, the National Weather Service said.

Some Guerneville residents were startled Thursday when a neighbor's house suddenly slipped off its moorings and slid down a hill.

PG&E crews as of Wednesday morning have restored power to all but a small fraction of the more than 800,000 customers who had outages as a result of a large storm that blew through Northern California on Sunday, utility officials said.

Mill Valley Middle School remained closed on Tuesday because of the extensive damage caused by the weekend storm.

We're still in a historic drought. That's why water districts will stick with their water conservation measures.

Pacific Gas & Electric is continuing to work around the clock to restore power to pockets of several communities in the East Bay.

San Francisco is cleaning up after this weekend’s storms. The city is clearing downed trees and branches and pools of standing water.

In the Santa Cruz Mountains, clearing skies overhead did not extend all the way to the ground. The remnants of the rain made it difficult for people who had to evacuate to return home.

For such a big storm, North Bay damage on Monday was relatively spotty across the board. However, some folks got hit pretty hard. 

In Fremont, the freeway early Monday looked something like a pool and a parking lot, with several cars stuck in three-feet of flood water.

A massive storm barreled toward Southern California on Monday after flooding highways, toppling trees, cutting power to about 380,000 utility customers and causing rock slides and mud flows in areas burned bare by wildfires across the northern half of the state.

While the Bay Area was getting drenched by heavy rainfall, strong winds sent trucks blowing over on Bay Area bridges.

Sunday's rainfall total of 4.02 inches recorded in downtown San Francisco places it fourth on the city's list of wettest days ever and sets a record for wettest October day.

As the inches of rainfall continued adding up Sunday, so did reports of damage, and power outages.

In the Santa Cruz Mountains, concerns over debris flows in the burn scar areas prompted an evacuation order affecting thousands. Yet many people are not heeding the warning.