We watched many cars without snow capabilities like four-wheel drive quickly learn driving here was a mistake. As temperatures dropped into the mid to lower 30s, the falling precipitation along Big Basin Way quickly turned from rain to snow. Words I don't think any San Jose resident has said before. Hamilton at the observatory," San Jose resident Jose Arevalos said. "I've been living here my whole life, I'm 22 years old and I have not seen this much snow, only up on Mt. It made for one of the easiest trips to snow that people in the area have ever seen. Hamilton, we saw snow falling and covering the Saratoga Hills, just about 15 minutes from town. No, it wasn't snowfall in the Santa Cruz Mountains or at Mt. VIDEO: A look at the best snow videos from rare Bay Area snowfallĪ taste of Tahoe in the South Bay. Previously one lane was open in each direction.Īlso in Palo Alto, Page Mill road is closed again due to snow in the road, between Moody Road and Skyline Boulevard. Storm-related impacts continued to affect Bay Area traffic and BART on Monday afternoon, with some roads flooded by heavy rains or closed due to snow.Įl Camino Real in Palo Alto is closed in both directions due to flooding at the University Avenue underpass, police said about 12:30 p.m. There's no timetable on the cleanup here, but Mill Valley police say the section of Cascade Drive where the trees fell is now closed to the public. "I don't want to brag, but the fire department, the police department, and DPW all came out and nobody did anything, so myself and a guy I just met who's probably in his 70s, old timer from Bolinas got out here, got my battery-powered saw, cut up all these logs, cleared the road, swept everything, pulled these lines back," said Speer. In this case, no one was hit and no structures were damaged.īen says he spent most of the afternoon cleaning the roadway. They came down on a roadway that hikers use to travel from Tenderfoot Trail to those Cascade Falls. ![]() ![]() One of the top-rated waterfalls in the entire Bay Area. The trees fell on land in walking distance to Cascade Falls. In Boulder Creek, located in the Santa Cruz mountains south of San Francisco, a 1-year-old child was critically injured after a redwood tree fell on top of a home last Tuesday evening, KTVU reported."We're sitting on the couch drinking coffee, heard a loud loud bang, power went out, I saw some power lines moving back and forth and we came out and saw this," said Speer. Counties northeast of Sacramento and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains were most affected, the tracker showed, with over 55,000 customers experiencing outages in Northern California's Lake County alone.Īs last week's storm barreled down the West Coast between Wednesday and Saturday, severe weather brought perilous wind gusts that toppled trees and knocked out power lines across California, leaving thousands without electricity and prompting officials to issue the first blizzard warning in decades for Southern California. More than 63,000 California utility customers did not have power as of Sunday morning, according to the tracking site. The cold wind chills as low as 30 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes." ![]() Downed trees and tree limbs with power outages are possible due to heavy snow and gusty winds. "Blowing snow will cause white-out conditions at times. "Travel could be very difficult to impossible," the NWS said. ![]() When blizzard conditions hit, snowfall could total between 2 and 6 feet, the agency said, while wind gusts are expected to become even stronger. Heavy snow is expected across the mountain range, according to the National Weather Service, which said storm conditions could bring between 6 and 20 inches of snow, plus 60 mph wind gusts, to the region on Sunday and Monday. A winter storm warning is also in effect for much of the Sierra Nevada through Monday morning, when a blizzard warning is due to replace it and remain active through mid-week.
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