UPDATE:
The National Weather Service said at 11 p.m. Sunday its flood advisory for the Bay Area was canceled, though many areas were still reporting flooding, including Union City, where police tweeted at 10:45 p.m. flooding was "severe" in the Alvarado-Niles Road area.
Rocks and debris in the roadway closed Niles Canyon Road in both directions earlier Sunday, and State Highway 1 in Pacifica closed in both directions at Manor Drive due to flooding.
Pacifica police say drivers should use alternate routes. There is no estimated time for re-opening.
~~~~~
UPDATE:
PG&E says more than 147,000 customers around the Bay Area didn't have power at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Peninsula was hit hardest by the outages, with 46,529 customers down, followed by Marin County, with 41,938 down. There were also significant outages in the South Bay (28,948), East Bay (21,685), and San Francisco (8,644).
PG&E activated its Emergency Operations Center on Thursday to prepare for advance planning ahead of the weekend storm, as well as regional and local emergency operation centers across the service area. The utility has more than 3,000 employees working Sunday.
For PG&E safety tips during power outages, go to https://bit.ly/30R1x4t.
~~~~~~~~~
UPDATE:
By 2:15 p.m., 130,662 customers were without power, according to PG&E. The outages affected 50,576 in the North Bay, 43,556 on the Peninsula, 21,773 in the East Bay, 7,523 in the South Bay and 7,234 in San Francisco, PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi said.
Dozens of trees were down, and several roadways closed due to flooding around the area. Authorities in several cities and counties urged residents to stay home and use caution if they need to venture onto roads.
The storm is tied as the third strongest since 1950 on the Bay Area Storm Index (BASI), and the strongest in 26 years, according to Jan Null, a consulting meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services.
The National Weather Service on Sunday afternoon issued a flood warning for the Napa River, which is expected to rise above flood stage by late Sunday evening. At 1:15 p.m., the river near St. Helena was at 16.1 feet. According to the weather service, flood stage is 18 feet.
~~~~
As Sunday's storm continued to drench the Bay Area, PG&E's estimates of customers affected by storm-related outages swelled to more than 66,000 customers affected by late Sunday morning.
In Redwood City, thousands remain without power; PG&E has assigned crews to some neighborhoods to assess the outages, but estimated restoration times are unclear, according to the PG&E outages map. A PG&E spokesman did not immediately respond to comment on the Redwood City power outages.
The North Bay remains hardest hit and as of 11:30 a.m., power was out to 43,319 customers, mostly in Marin and Sonoma counties, PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi said.
About 16,439 customers are affected on the Peninsula; 2,430 in San Francisco, 2,258 in the East Bay, and 1,582 in the South Bay.
PG&E started staging crews on Saturday to deal with the storm, with more than 3,000 workers available to respond to outages, Guidi said
Bay City News contributed to this story.
