SF News SF Under Flash Flood Warning As Water Seen Bubbling Up From Manholes in Cow Hollow and Hayes Valley Multiple parts of San Francisco were experiencing urban flooding of various degrees Tuesday afternoon after some major downpours.
SF News Rain and Floods Snarl Travel In SF and Bay Area, Oakland Zoo Closed for the Day Wednesday’s continued rainstorms caused traffic jams and commute messes across the Bay Area, while the Oakland Zoo closed up shop in heavy rains, and more than 200 flights have been delayed today at SFO.
SF News Group of Marina Residents Including Joe Montana Sue SF for Property Damage Caused by New Year's Flood Residents of the affluent bayside Marina Boulevard say that a lack of proper wastewater infrastructure made their homes flood with sewage in a new lawsuit against the city of SF.
SF News Tropical Storm Hilary Hits Burning Man, Gates Closed Until at Least Noon on Tuesday Don’t bother leaving for Burning Man today if you have an early-arrival pass, because Black Rock City is largely underwater, and the flooding has forced the temporary closure of the event’s front gate until 12 noon Tuesday at the earliest.
SF News Inland Lake In Central California, Reappearing After Decades, Could Be Harbinger of Wet Seasons to Come Tulare Lake, which used to have ferries going across it and was reportedly four times the size of Lake Tahoe, reemerged this winter in Tulare and Kings Counties, swamping farmland that has been in use for decades.
SF News Marin County Roads Get Warped And Buckled After This Week’s Storms This Novato road will be “closed off for some time” for obvious reasons, and there’s a bigger problem that water and gas lines throughout Marin County are at risk of being disrupted.
SF News Residents of San Mateo County’s Woodside Told ‘LEAVE NOW’ As Mudslides Move In Evacuation orders are in effect in parts of the incorporated small San Mateo County town of Woodside, and the sheriff’s office is not mincing words as they tell residents to “LEAVE NOW.”
SF News Floods Force Road Closures Across Bay Area; Ducks Were Swimming On I-580 In Oakland The latest round of storms have left flooded roads that have stranded hundreds in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with flood advisories in effect for several Bay Area counties, and a flooded I-580 in Oakland was taken over by a paddling of ducks.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park’s Entwined Sculpture Installation Completely Flooded, Yet Somehow More Dazzling Than Ever The popular LED forest installation 'Entwined' is now engulfed in floodwaters of up to a foot deep, but the resulting lake has created a spectacular mirror-image effect that doubles the amount of visual joy the piece creates.
SF News 5-Year-Old Boy Still Missing After Being Swept Away In Paso Robles Flood; Mom Says He Told Her to 'Be Calm' The search continues for five-year-old Kyle Doan, who remains under "missing" status after being swept out of his mother's grip in rushing floodwaters near Paso Robles on Monday.
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 Mission District and Bernal Heights Restaurants Gear Up For More Floods, As Another Gigantic Storm Looms Barely 72 hours after being battered by floods, several Bay Area restaurants are gearing up for another “bomb cyclone/atmospheric river,” and many have not even reopened after Saturday’s weather-related mayhem.
SF News SF Still Digging Out From Saturday’s Mudslides, Downed Trees, Floods, and Chaos That New Year’s Eve storm was an all-timer, and its aftermath continues with numerous homes still red-tagged, residents displaced, and businesses dealing with the worst flooding wreckage they’ve ever seen.
SF News Vandal — Who Lives There — Allegedly Makes Mess of 100 Van Ness Apartment Tower, Causing Major Flood A major flooding incident occurred on the 11th floor of the apartment tower at 100 Van Ness, and it's allegedly the work of a vandal who lived in the building, and who was found at the scene.
SF News New Study Shows a Potential California Megaflood Could Be the Most Costly Natural Disaster In Human History Residents of California are conditioned to fear the "Big One." But as the climate crisis worsens, environmental experts believe that it's not an earthquake Californians should worry about most — but rather a megaflood that could engulf the entire state.
SF News Married Couple in Their 60s Identified as Victims of Flood Waters in Millbrae The two people who tragically died last week when their car became submerged in rapidly rising floodwaters beneath a Caltrain overpass in Millbrae have been identified as a married couple who lived nearby.
SF News Two Found Dead In Flood-Submerged Vehicle On Low-Lying Street In Millbrae Two people were found deceased Thursday morning inside a vehicle that became submerged in rapidly rising waters on a Millbrae Street, amid heavy rain.
SF News Video: Drone Footage Shows Massive Oroville Spillway Repair Project Underway The work is proceeding apace at the Oroville Dam, where the winter of 2017 tested a 50-year-old piece of water infrastructure, and it failed the test. As we learned in April, the very
SF News Local Billionaire Donates $5 Million to Flood Relief Effort In San Jose Billionaire donates $5M to aid San Jose flood victims https://t.co/CQFZNXkuYD pic.twitter.com/NTkb8bYDtj— SFGate (@SFGate) March 2, 2017 Though the South Bay is not short on billionaires who could
SF News San Jose Flooding Blamed On Santa Clara Valley Water District Officials' Miscalculation The first "hard evidence" has emerged via NBC Bay Area that officials from the Santa Clara Valley Water District made a grave miscalculation last week about how much water they could safely release
Arts & Entertainment Video: Anderson Reservoir Spillway Makes For Pretty Waterfall Though there really isn't a bright side to a whole section of San Jose being flooded by the overflow of Coyote Creek, causing major damage to homes and businesses, the source of all
SF News 28 Horses Stranded, Left Behind In Contaminated Floodwaters In San Jose Over two dozen horses were left stranded in paddocks in San Jose after rising floodwaters forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people there earlier this week, without their pets and animals.
SF News California Drought Virtually Over After Five Years Though a few parts of Southern California remain in a state of "moderate" or "severe" drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday that the vast majority of the state has now emerged
SF News Major Flooding In San Jose Leads To Boat Rescues, Mandatory Evacuations @SJFD handling major flooding avoid the area Senter and Phelan pic.twitter.com/5nREMAUBZZ— San Jose Fire Dept. (@SJFD) February 21, 2017 The ongoing major flooding caused by the overfull Anderson Reservoir and
SF News Northern California Town Of Maxwell Evacuated After Being Completely Flooded Most of inland Northern California is under a flood warning Sunday, effective through most of the week, as rivers, creeks, levees, and dams in multiple counties are severely stressed following a new round
