Bay Area Level 3 storm: From downed trees to flood threats, here's a look at storm damage around the region - KGO-TV

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- ABC7 News is already seeing tempest harm crossed the San Francisco Bay Area owed to a unsafe atmospheric stream moving done the region.

Here's a look astatine wherever determination are reports of downed powerlines, landslide threats and toppled trees owed to a Level 3 tempest connected the exclusive ABC7 Storm Impact Scale:

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East Bay

Residents of 15 homes successful Richmond voluntarily evacuated Tuesday nighttime and Wednesday aft the hillside supra the Seacliff improvement began showing signs of mudslides.

Mayor Tom Butt said successful his e-forum newsletter Wednesday that arrangements were made for residents without places to spell to enactment successful an Emeryville hotel. Butt said Seacliff Drive was closed betwixt Seacliff Way and Canal Boulevard, portion Seaview Drive and Seacliff Way from Seacliff Drive to Admiralty Way were besides closed.

Butt said a geologist was connected tract Wednesday morning, arsenic good arsenic a section contractor moving connected mitigating the damage.

Richmond Police Sgt. Donald Patchin said there's nary estimation arsenic to erstwhile radical tin get backmost to their homes.

"It's conscionable a waiting crippled close now, with this atmospheric stream coming successful implicit the adjacent fewer days," Patchin said.

San Ramon constabulary wrote connected Twitter Wednesday greeting that Crow Canyon Road is closed successful some directions westbound of metropolis limits toward Castro Valley owed to a menace of landslides.

There is constricted entree for residents only, constabulary said precocious Wednesday morning.

Police said the roadworthy was closed by the Alameda County Public Works Agency owed to debris and unsafe roadworthy conditions.

In El Cerrito, ample histrion came down astatine astir 5:30 p.m. The homeowner told america she has nary energy and PG&E won't beryllium capable to reconnected that powerfulness until the histrion is cleaned up.

Another histrion came down connected a location successful Richmond. A homeowner was inside, she is good but histrion really pierced done the extortion and came into her son's bedroom.

Around 6 p.m., a histrion came down on the Richmond Parkway. Traffic successful some directions was blocked but histrion crews were capable to propulsion the histrion to the broadside and unfastened postulation a mates hours later.

City officials successful Oakland person joined galore municipalities astir the Bay Area successful declaring a section authorities of exigency Wednesday owed to the wintertime tempest inactive pummeling the region.

The exigency declaration allows the metropolis to telephone successful immoderate and each unit to respond to exigency conditions arsenic they hap overnight. The city's nationalist works, transportation, occurrence and constabulary departments person each staffed up to negociate accrued work needs, according to the announcement.

The occurrence department's situation responders person been moving with unhoused residents to pass them of structure options and coordinating proscription for those who request it. In addition, the Ira Jinkins Center -- astatine 9175 Edes Ave. adjacent the Coliseum -- volition beryllium providing 3 escaped meals connected Thursday arsenic good arsenic providing exigency structure to each ages and families.

The city's year-round structure astatine St. Vincent de Paul, located astatine 675 23rd Street successful West Oakland, has doubled their furniture capableness to service the stateless done Friday greeting enabling them to structure up to 100 people.

For residents who request a impermanent refuge from the bedewed weather, oregon for those experiencing a powerfulness outage, each 18 nationalist room locations are unfastened and person power. Thursday hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and the main room is unfastened until 8 p.m.

For the latest accusation connected Oakland's wintertime tempest updates, spot oaklandca.gov/topics/winter-storms.

North Bay

Sonoma County officials are acrophobic astir imaginable flooding arsenic this tempest intensifies, issuing an evacuation warning for immoderate residents surviving adjacent the Russian River floodway betwixt Healdsburg to Jenner.

This comes arsenic powerfulness has been retired for astir of Guerneville since Wednesday night.

"We're going to get hit, I haven't seen this since 2019," Karen Devan, a Guerneville nonmigratory said.

Just shy of 4 years ago, astir of Guerneville was underwater the past clip the Russian River flooded backmost successful February 2019.

It was truthful serious, determination was nary mode successful oregon retired of the metropolis but by watercraft.

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Karen Devan, her spouse and their canine Fergus not taking immoderate chances, aft surviving done the past flood.

"Safeway volition flood, drugstores volition close, basal necessities volition adjacent down and the occurrence section volition beryllium awfully engaged doing rescues, truthful you're benignant of connected your ain to fig it out," she said.

Deciding to publication a edifice for the adjacent 2 nights successful Santa Rosa aft losing powerfulness Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, businesses bracing for past to repetition itself, lining sandbags crossed their beforehand doors and closing up store to get retired of dodge.

San Francisco

In San Francisco, ABC7 News newsman Lyanne Melendez says solid is falling from 2 breached windows astatine the Fox Plaza Building forcing the closure of a portion of Market and Polk.

Downtown San Francisco stations are astir apt to look entranceway closures, arsenic determination person been issues with flooding successful the past, though unit and instrumentality are astatine the ready, BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said.

BART crews volition utilize instrumentality similar sandbags, pumps, peculiar vacuum trucks, tarps and Zamboni machines successful lawsuit of a flood, Trost said. Crews person already checked sump pumps and cleared tempest drains.

BART volition besides beryllium moving trains astatine slower speeds during the storm, and riders should expect delays of up to 20 minutes.

South Bay

After 17,000 customers were without powerfulness aboriginal Wednesday morning, PG&E restored vigor to overmuch of the San Jose area. Still, dozens of stoplights were retired passim the downtown country for overmuch of the time indicating outages throughout.

The rainfall wasn't overmuch of the origin of the issues, but the upwind surely was. In fact, the upwind knocked a ample histrion subdivision down, ripping powerfulness lines down with it. Neighbors described it sounded similar an earthquake erstwhile the subdivision fell. Thankfully nary injuries were reported and San Jose Fire and PG&E cleared the country quickly.

The Santa Cruz County coastline has taken a superior beating from the astir caller atmospheric stream storm.

Tweets from the county's authoritative Twitter relationship amusement "significant damage" to Capitola and Seacliff piers.

The region announced Thursday greeting that the seashore was extraordinarily unsafe due to the fact that of precocious tides and tremendous waves.

People should debar each bodies of h2o portion coastal areas are nether a flood informing by the National Weather Service until 4 p.m. Thursday.

Multiple roadworthy closures are besides successful effect passim Santa Cruz County owed to flooding.

Peninsula

After the dense rainfall caused Belmont creek to overflow past weekend, Belmont officials person closed aggregate metropolis streets arsenic a preventative measurement up of the worse portion of the storm. Business owners successful the country accidental they arsenic acceptable arsenic they tin be.

San Mateo County Public Works Department has utilized 275 tons of soil and implicit 18,000 sandbags truthful acold Wednesday, but astatine this constituent determination is shortage of some supplies. We've seen radical bringing their garbage bags hoping that tin assistance them forestall flooding to their property.

Bay City News Service has contributed to this article.

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