SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Wind, Blinding Rain, and Hail Cause Damage Around the Bay Hail fell hard around San Francisco at 6:15 a.m. and continues to fall around the Bay, downed trees are being reported all over, and an apartment complex in South San Francisco had part of its roof blown off.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Second Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Another mountain lion cub was found abandoned near Santa Cruz and brought to the Oakland Zoo, some spots to our south saw 10 inches of rain between last night and this morning, and Mary's Pizza Shack is closing several more locations.
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old In Connection With Kicking Elderly Woman on Muni Bus A juvenile suspect is in custody in connection with a widely covered December 3 Muni bus assault involving an elderly victim near Japantown.
SF News Compromise With NIMBYs Over Six-Story Building On 18th Street Near Dolores Park Rejected By State Housing Officials A multi-unit building that's become a cause célèbre for pro-housing activists after loud pushback from neighbors over its height and sunlight concerns may revert back to its original design, after state housing officials stepped in to scold SF over a compromise plan that is one story shorter.
SF News Huge Landslides Shut Down Roads In Santa Cruz County, Including Southbound Highway 17 Impacts from the ongoing parade of storms continue to be most severe just south of the Bay Area in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, and on Monday, the main route into Santa Cruz from the north, Highway 17, was completely blocked by a landslide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince, One of SF's Three Michelin Three-Star Restaurants, to Close For Six-Month Renovation Nine years after its last large-scale renovation, downtown dining destination Quince is closing later this month for six months to undergo another significant overhaul.
SF News Rainy Morning Gives Way to Dry Monday as Next Deluge Sets Up for Tuesday Most of the Bay Area will get a brief respite from the rain today after a wet and windy Monday morning.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Federal Disaster Aid Approved For California Biden approved federal disaster aid for California's storms; BART delays, flooding, downed trees, and more were impacting this morning's commute around the Bay; and NOAA's hurricane hunters are now out studying atmospheric rivers over the Pacific.
SF News Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.
SF News Rainy Saturday Will Be a Mild Preview of More Storms to Come Next Week While there isn't another bomb cyclone on the horizon for now, two more atmospheric river storms are headed our way next week, with a bit more Pineapple Express downpour starting Saturday.
SF News SFPD: Woman Admitted to Killing Her Two Daughters In Hunters Point Home More tragic details have now come out in court documents about the case against Paulesha Green-Pulliam, who pleaded not guilty last week to the double-murder of her young daughters two days before Christmas.
SF News Evacuation Warnings Issued For Russian River Valley Ahead of Likely Weekend Flooding The entire Bay Area is once again under a Flood Watch starting on Saturday, as two more storm systems head into the region, and low-lying areas along the Russian River are now under evacuation warnings.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Just Saw Its Wettest 10 Days In 150 Years The SFPD just announced the arrest of a serial commercial burglary suspect, the residents of Capitola are still without power, and the last 10 days are officially the second-wettest ever recorded in downtown San Francisco.
SF News Walgreens CEO Says 'Maybe We Cried Too Much' About Shoplifting, Acknowledges Private Security Didn't Work The CEO of Walgreens now says that shoplifting seems to be down and maybe they made too big a deal about the issue — in SF and elsewhere — the last couple of years.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Ocean Beach Surf Shop Owner Bob Wise Dies at Age 74 In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.
SF News SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.
SF News Two Deaths Attributed to Storm Including Sonoma Toddler; 70,000 Still Without Power Wednesday's bomb cyclone turned out to be less impactful in terms of rainfall totals than the one we saw on Saturday, but forecasters were right about the wind-related dangers, and a downed tree has been blamed for at least one death in Sonoma County.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Wind Gusts Recorded Last Night of 85mph and Higher A wind gust of 101 mph was recorded in Marin last night, the Russian River is likely to see worse flooding on Sunday than it will today, and Amazon is laying of 18,000 workers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Point Richmond and Niles Canyon Residents Evacuated Over Landslide Risks Alameda County officials strongly advised residents of Niles Canyon to evacuate Wednesday; 15 homes have been evacuated in Point Richmond due to a potential landslide occurring above them; and PG&E already had 25,000 customers without power at 4 p.m.
SF News Meteorologists: This Parade of Storms Is Coming From a 'Runaway Pacific Freight Train' and 'Wavy Jet Stream' A "roiling" Pacific Ocean being stirred up by a third-in-a-row La Nina cycle as well as climate change and other factors are making for some unstable and dramatic weather on the West Coast and elsewhere around the globe.
SF News Glass Falls Off Fox Plaza and Crashed Onto Street, Possibly Due to Wind At least one large pane of glass from Fox Plaza came crashing down to the street near Civic Center Wednesday morning in what appears to be the first wind-related hazard on San Francisco streets due to the current storm.
SF News Watsonville Evacuated, Guerneville Braces for Another Flood The majority of coastal California is at a significant risk of flooding today as a 'bomb cyclone' storm bears down, with some inland areas at risk as well, and officials in Watsonville are taking no chances and have issued mandatory evacuation orders.
SF News Rainy Humpday Headlines: The Line For Sandbags Has Been Very Long SF's Dept. of Public Works keeps running out of sandbags but people are lined up anyway, school is being canceled for tomorrow in some cities, and a COVID-positive inmate died in custody in Martinez.
SF News SF Sees Exact Same Number of Homicides In 2022 As Previous Year, While Burglaries Are Down According to the preliminary numbers from the SFPD, San Francisco looks to have had the exact same number of homicides in 2022 as in 2021 — a total of 55 — as of the end of the calendar year.
SF News Midweek 'Bomb Cyclone' May Break Rain Records Already Broken By Saturday's Storm Meteorologists with the National Weather Service are warning that the coming bomb cyclone looks to be even more brutal, windy, and wet than what we just experienced on Saturday. So, clear those storm drains and brace yourselves.
