SAN FRANCISCO — The third powerful storm in a week drenched an already saturated Northern California, but concerns of serious flooding eased as the system moved through faster than expected. In fact, the powerful storm ended up dumping more snow than rain on the California-Nevada region.
The storm dropping as much as an inch of rain per hour Sunday in some areas, toppling trees and knocking out electrical service to tens of thousands of people, officials said.
Rivers across Northern California swelled from the deluge, but did not flood as extensively as had been expected, officials said.
Forecasters had issued flood warnings for the Napa and Russian rivers, two rivers north of San Francisco with a history of flooding, as well as the Truckee River, near Lake Tahoe, but by Sunday afternoon had canceled the warning for the Russian River. In an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, forecasters in Reno, Nevada told said they "dodged a bullet" on this storm.
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