San Francisco is asking people to clear those catch basins if they see any debris that could slow the drainage of water from the next storm. Meanwhile, the North Bay was spared mass outages. Another storm is coming.
is drying out and preparing for the next round of storms. Thursday's storm blew in during the early morning hours, dumping rain throughout the city."The good news is there were no injuries, no property damage, other than a large light pole came down and thelines came down as well," said Rachel Gordon from San Francisco's Department of Public Works. "So, the impact is that Muni, the Mission Street buses had to be re-routed for that.
The city says urban foresters will come out to examine other trees in the area to see if they also may be prone to collapse. "We know that ficus trees are more vulnerable to failure," Gordon said. "We saw that today. We think that with this one, it wasn't wind that brought it down, but it was the saturation of the ground and then the heavy canopy on it."Commuters had to contend with standing water on the Central Freeway.
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