misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via M.L.G.: "saw someone weaving their bike thru city traffic. Thought they were wearing cat ears on their head, like a headband, or a hat, or one of those hoodies with
Arts & Entertainment Many Chose Couch Over Sunday Streets Today SF Citizen illustrates that many San Francisco residents evidently opted for staying on their couches or attending the rained-delayed Giants game, anywhere but Sunday Streets. (It looks like SFist's bold declaration that rain
SF News High Surf Until Wednesday Night A high surf advisory has been issued by the National Weather Service for Bay Area beaches. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), "Residents are advised to be cautious along the coast and to
SF News Storm Prompts State Of Emergency In SF Citing "significant rainfall, high winds, deaths and injuries, snow and mudslides," acting Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in the city and county of San Francisco, as well as three other
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Dangerous rain in North Berkeley. Photo by George (via KRON 4 Viewer Weather Pictures).
SF News Rain, Everywhere As heavy showers continue to molest the Bay Area, wind gusts could reach 60 mph in some places. The high winds are expected to last until noon today. Some 29,000 are currently
SF News More Flooding Prompts More Closures The CBS 5 Twitter feed informs us: "Flooding closes westbound Bore #3 of Caldecott Tunnel. Drivers are directed to take middle bore." So, you know, middle bore only, folks.
misc Photo Du Jour 552 House boat part of "Hill Habitats - the 2nd Potrero Hill Home and House Boat Tour" starting on Sunday, 1/24.
SF News Great Highway Closed In San Francisco The Great Highway is currently closed between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln over concerns of concerns due to today's overblown storm. The San Francisco Department of Public Utilities, KGO reports, "already realigned the southbound
SF News Free Sandbags For San Francisco Residents With heavy rain expected to last throughout the week, and flooding a good possibility, why not grab a few sandbags to help protect your home? SF Weekly reports that "the city has once
SF News Capture This Winter's Rain Water With SFPUC's Rain Barrel Program Seeing as how this winter promises to be a wet one, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is offering big ol' barrels in which to catch precious rain water. San Francisco Sewers Blog reports,
SF News UPDATED: Muni Subway Service Shuts Down Due to extensive flooding, Muni temporarily shutdown subway service at 4:15 p.m. MTA will flood (heh) the streets with buses for this evening's commute. "We're putting as many buses as we
SF News Photos: OMGStormWatch2K9 Part II -- The Flooding Even more rain blanketed the city today, flooding streets. From the Mission to Hayes Valley, the streets are soaked. Please drive carefully. Check out a radar's view of the rain here. UPDATE: The
SF News How's About That Rain? It's currently pouring cats and puppies outside SFist HQ, and we feel woefully under-informed about this development. We just read this morning that the heaviest rain was supposed to hit north of here,
SF News Photos: OMGStormWatch2K9's Aftermath Here are some lovely images from the aftermath of yesterday's storm. Thanks for washing the city, Mother Nature!
SF News The Storm: She Has Passed Are you receiving us? Do you have electricity and such? Apparently 10,000 Bay Area residents still do not, and some major power line connecting Northern and Southern California was knocked out near
SF News (UPDATED) Mill Valley Blasts Emergency Siren In the middle of a conversation about roaring fires and Muir Woods' Pelican Inn with San Francisco scribe/on-air talent Beth Spotswood, she informed us that Mill Valley is "blasting the emergency sirens.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'San Francisco Rain' by LYS Hey guess what! It's raining! So here's a little palate cleanser today that could be considered the progressive-house antithesis to yesterday's "Storms" by Stevie Nicks. It's called "San Francisco Rain" and it's by
SF News Photos: OMGStormWatch2K9 -- Tree Almost Crushes Cyclist This dastardly tree, at Haight and Broderick, came tumbling down, nearly crushing this cute cyclist. "Cyclist 'Daniel' excited that he's not dead. Bummed that the tree ate the front wheel of his bike,
SF News NextBus Blows A Fuse Although Muni is (understandably) having major delays today due to the rain, NextBus, it seems, is also out-of-order. On the worst possible day, too. Ugh. People on Twitter are (understandably) losing their proverbial
SF News The Storm: She Is Here Get out those water wings, kids! The worst of the rain is expected to fall today between, um, right now (7 a.m.) and 7 p.m. tonight, and there's a wind advisory
SF News The Storm, She Is Coming has more sandbag information. For those of you who don't know yet, which is probably a little less than two of you at most, a storm if a brewing. And it promises to
