Downed trees and power lines were reported across Northern California as high winds from the latest atmospheric river storm added new problems to a region already impacted by the wet weather.
were downing trees, knocking down power lines and even blowing out windows in a San Francisco skyscraperAt the peak of the outages Tuesday afternoon, nearly 300,000 PG&E customers in the Bay Area were without power, most of them in the South Bay and East Bay.
In the Bay Area, downpours and minor roadway flooding led to treacherous driving conditions on local freeways. The California Highway Patrol was handling dozens of traffic incidents, including an injury accident with an overturned tractor trailer that shut down eastbound traffic on the Richmond San Rafael Bridge, a jackknifed big rig on Interstate Highway 680 near Sunol, and another big rig overturned by high winds on the Bay Bridge.
The reason for the escalating outages is rain, accompanied by intense gusts that have led to downed trees and wires in every part of the Bay Area.
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