The atmospheric river that swept the Bay Area overnight brought torrential rain and flash flooding in the North Bay, making for a nasty commute.
The stormy weather we've seen in San Francisco is nothing compared to the blizzard conditions in the Midwest and the East Coast.At SFO Tuesday, there were plenty of travelers, but not the crazy long lines seen in the past few days.On this Tuesday, there has been more than 70 canceled flights and 200 delayed flights at SFO. Even so, the SFO duty manager said operations are running much more smoothly thanks to the extra staff working.
"It all seems so mild to me. I'm from Chicago. It's probably good to be getting rain considering it's pretty dry here," said Morgan Wessel of San Francisco. The storms the Bay Area has been faced with have not been easy to navigate, amid flooding and other hazards, PG"We want our customers at home to prepare for any outages. Because this storm system is not the only one that we're going to see this week. There are several other storm systems coming," said PGBut even though the storms have been dangerous and damaging in some cases, experts say this storm and future ones are a good sign.
Even having just one year of above average rainfall is not going to get us out of the current situation that we're in," said Metra Richert, Valley Water's water supply planning and conservation manager. "Some data that kind of supports that is if you look at our reservoirs, they're still only at 19% full capacity."
Though we'll need more than the current storms to get us out of the drought, work is being done to capture as much rain as possible.
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