Further down the coast, a section of the coastal highway in Carmel was closed due to massive waves reaching the roadway, and another section south of Big Sur was closed because of falling rock. Meanwhile, authorities shuttered numerous roadways due to downed trees, power lines and other hazards.Ī rockslide closed a stretch of Highway 1 between Stinson Beach and Muir Beach, Marin County said on Twitter. Fairfield police said a 19-year-old woman was killed when her car hydroplaned on a wet road and struck a pole. The boy was one of at least two people who died in Wednesday's storm.
They performed CPR and the child was pronounced dead at 5:48 p.m. The boy’s father and some neighbors had pulled the boy from under the tree by the time first responders arrived, Valencia said. when the tree fell and landed on top of the mobile home, pinning him underneath, sheriff’s Sgt. The boy was sitting in his living room around 5 p.m. Thursday: Authorities have released more information about a 2-year-old boy who was killed by a falling tree in the Sonoma County community of Occidental on Wednesday. Quiñones urged anyone who sees a downed power line to first call 911 and then contact PG&E - and to never touch or get near it. We got hit on New Year’s with a storm, we got hit yesterday with a storm, we’re expecting a storm Saturday, and another storm system Monday, which creates a very limited window of opening for restoration for our crews,” she said.
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“We have a series of storms coming in the system.
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But the succession of storms and the short windows of time between them have made restoration efforts challenging, she added. Quiñones said there are 369 PG&E restoration crews currently out in the field, along with about 25 crews from other West Coast utilities providing mutual aid. The weather is preventing us from bringing any aerial equipment up in the air.” She noted that winds late Wednesday reached close to 100 mph in some higher-elevation service areas. “Because we don't have access to many of the areas, or the conditions are really dangerous for our crews, trees are falling around them, we have flooding and soil movement when they are trying to restore our service,” Quiñones said in an afternoon press briefing.
Roughly 325,000 have had their power restored, and another 40,000 should be back online by late Thursday, the utility said.Ĭustomers who still don’t have power after today could be in for a long wait, said Janisse Quiñones, PG&E's senior vice president of electric operations. Thursday: Pacific Gas and Electric on Thursday afternoon said about 440,000 customers across its vast service area - including a number of schools - lost power at some point on Wednesday or Thursday morning. The recent succession of storms have helped with California's drought conditions, moving the state out of the "exceptional drought" category, but the precipitation won't be nearly enough to officially end the four-year drought. The utility reportedly mobilized 3,000 workers and contractors to continue repair work before the next storm. As of Friday afternoon, an evacuation order was lifted for the low-lying areas of the Rio Del Mar Esplanade in Santa Cruz County, but an evacuation warning remained in effect for low-lying residences in sections of nearby Capitola.Īs of Friday morning, Pacific Gas and Electric had restored power to more than 200,000 customers, but said that tens of thousands of residents in its service area were still without power, including up to 17,000 customers in the Bay Area, according to reporting from Bay City News. In coastal areas on Friday, wave heights were significantly lower than in previous days, although the surf remained dangerous along much of the coast. Tuesday. Various roads also remained closed throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Marin County issued a flood watch from 4 a.m. In Sonoma County, the evacuation warning was still in effect for all residents living near the Russian River floodway and its tributaries from Healdsburg to Jenner, where the river is likely to flood in the coming days. Friday: The weather in Northern California was significantly calmer on Friday, offering a brief respite before two more atmospheric rivers slam the region this weekend and into next week.Īs of Friday morning, evacuation and shelter-in-place orders had been lifted in Sacramento County.
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