From flooded roadways to power outages, the Bay Area's strongest storm of the season dumped several inches of rain across the region early Tuesday morning.
From flooded roadways to power outages, the Bay Area's strongest storm of the season dumped several inches of rain across the region Tuesday.pummeled the Bay Area early Tuesday morning causing widespread flooding on roadways and downed trees and branches.
This is the first of several storms that are expected to hit California this week bringing gusty winds, rain and snow to parts of the state. On Tuesday, Downtown San Francisco received more than an inch of rain and Mount Tamalpais had more than 4 inches before dawn. The right two lanes of westbound Interstate Highway 580 are flooded this morning near Mills College in Oakland, a Caltrans spokesperson said.Traffic at 10 a.m. was backed up a little less than a mile because of the flooding. Caltrans trucks and crews are on the scene and expect to ease the flooding by about 11 a.m., Mara said.Winter storm warnings were issued for the Sierra Nevada, where motorists were advised that the combination of winds and snow could make travel hazardous.
The greater Lake Tahoe area and Mono County were warned to expect heavy snow with wind gusts around 50 mph , and up to 100 mph along Sierra ridgetops. Lake Tahoe was expected to have waves that could capsize small vessels.If you're on the ABC7 News app,
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