For a third consecutive Tuesday, a potent storm packing dangerous gusts of up 45 mph or higher and heavy rainfall plowed into the Bay Area.
In South San Francisco, CHP reported a downed tree was blocking the right and center lanes of southbound I-280 at Avalon Drive shortly before 10:30 a.m. The tree was cleared and all lanes had reopened by around 11:45 a.m.PG&E said they have thousands of crew members in the field in preparation for Tuesday's storm, with a focus on the South Bay and Peninsula since that was where the most damage was expected.
The current outages were concentrated in the East Bay with more than 3,000; the North Bay had 1,470 and the South Bay 976 outages, respectively. On the Peninsula, there were 578 outages while in San Francisco there were just a couple of dozen customers without power. "With an aging older structure that now has a declining root system due to drought and all of a sudden gets pounded with loaded conditions of rain and wind, that overburdens them with all this extra weight on a weakening structure," Remy Hummer of Arborist Now Inc. described the dangerous conditions to KPIX."That's when you start to see trees topple and fall over."
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