Resident Frank Kuhr waited for hours Tuesday afternoon at a downtown supermarket for crews to remove large redwoods that blocked a highway. Wind gusts reached 76 mph in Santa Cruz mountain communities, including Boulder Creek. Along the coastline of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, ocean foam blew across the roadways like large snowflakes. In the Monterey Bay region, Santa Cruz County was blasted with gusts up to 80 mph at midday. And in the community of Rossmoor, a driver was injured and a passenger died after a large tree fell onto a car, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said. In the Bay Area community of Portola Valley, a man driving a sewer truck was killed when a tree fell on the vehicle, the California Highway Patrol said. The train remained upright and nobody was injured, Amtrak and fire officials said.ĭolores Street in San Francisco sees a fallen tree Two others were killed in storm-related incidents, according to ABC News.Īnother video showed a couch flying through the sky in San Francisco at Main Street and Folsom Street, KRON reported.Īn Amtrak commuter train carrying 55 passengers was struck a downed tree and derailed near the East Bay village of Porta Costa. Three barges got loose and damaged a bridge.Īt least five were killed in the region, one dying in a gated community 25 miles east of San Francisco when a tree fell on a moving car.Īnother driver was killed after a toppled tree crushed a work van in San Mateo County, while another lost his life after a tree fell on him in Oakland. Ferry service was disrupted because conditions were too rough. Windows were blown out from two San Francisco high-rises, NBC Bay Area reported. stands out,' the Bay Area weather office wrote. Even by the standards of what has turned out to be one of our most extraordinary winter seasons in a very long time, yesterday. The wind and rain mayhem from San Francisco Bay south to Monterey Bay on Tuesday was caused by an extraordinary drop in barometric pressure over the eastern Pacific that meteorologists described as 'explosive cyclogenesis.' On Tuesday, some residents of north-central Arizona were told to prepare to evacuate due to rising water levels in rivers and basins. The storm was tapering off in California from north to south while pushing inland across the Southwest, the Four Corners region and the central and southern Rockies, the National Weather Service said. The warning was later canceled and the Ventura County Sheriff's Office tweeted there was no evidence a tornado touched down. The last time the weather service's Los Angeles office sent out tornado assessment teams was in 2016 near Fillmore in Ventura County, where it was determined that a small twister had touched down, Schoenfeld said.Ī tornado warning based on radar was also issued Tuesday night for the Point Mugu area west of Malibu. 'All the ingredients are there for more possible events like the one we saw earlier,' she said. Schoenfeld said more unstable weather was possible through the afternoon in Southern California. Two people died Tuesday as the storm raked the San Francisco Bay Area with powerful gusts and downpours. The rare and violent weather came amid a strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California. Gas and power to the area has been shut off, he said. Damage spread over more than one city block but the extent of the perimeter was still being determined. He did not know the severity of the injury.Īt least five structures and a small number of vehicles were damaged, but a full assessment was still underway, Gillman said. One person was injured and taken to a hospital, said Alex Gillman, a city spokesman.
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