Thousands of people are without power in the Bay Area and major freeways and roads are closed as the latest round of strong winds and rain batter California.
Evacuations were ordered in Santa Cruz county for people near Foreman Creek. The sheriff's office said a blockage was causing the water level to rise quickly. In the Oakland estuary, a section of a dock broke loose and floated away with boats connected to it.
Approximately five boats were attached to the dock as it floated through the waterway. Crews tied the runaway dock to a boat and hauled it to a safe place. A dock with several boats attached to it to broke free and was floating in the Oakland Estuary on Tuesday as a strong storm pounded the Bay Area.Connector lanes between Interstate-80 and I-780 in Vallejo were closed on Tuesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer jack-knifed in the westbound lanes.
In Newark, power lines fell on Highway 84 near Newark Blvd. and Ardenwood Blvd. and brought traffic to a stop, prompting traffic backups. Multiple trees fell in East Palo Alto and were tangled in power lines. A video sent to KTVU of the tangled lines shows parts of a tree touching a car parked nearby.
An image sent to KTVU showed the aftermath of a tree that fell onto a truck on El Camino Real in Burlingame.
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