It wasn't the soul-drenching disaster some had feared - but the combined storm wallop that finally finished rolling through the Bay Area on Sunday was no mild romp, either.
The latest weather system, which hit Saturday night and ended around noon the next day, dumped as much as 4 inches of rain on the region, triggering messy traffic accidents and knocking out power to tens of thousands of people.
Winds hit as hard as 60 miles an hour at times - so powerful they toppled a big rig on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge early Sunday morning. Three firefighters and a driver were seriously hurt in one Moraga-area, rain-triggered crash Sunday, and one woman died in another just before that in Daly City.
The latest weather system, which hit Saturday night and ended around noon the next day, dumped as much as 4 inches of rain on the region, triggering messy traffic accidents and knocking out power to tens of thousands of people.
At least one manhole was so overwhelmed by storm runoff in San Francisco that its cover exploded into the air atop an 8-foot geyser, and nearly a dozen cars in the city were crumpled by downed trees or limbs.
In all, the three storms that cycled in one after the other, beginning on Wednesday, dropped a whopping 15.7 inches of rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 3.4 inches in Oakland and 3.8 inches in San Francisco. Winds hit as hard as 60 miles an hour at times - so powerful they toppled a big rig on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge early Sunday morning. Three firefighters and a driver were seriously hurt in one Moraga-area, rain-triggered crash Sunday, and one woman died in another just before that in Daly City.
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