Gusty winds whipped through the Golden Gate Bridge Saturday, toppling a big rig that triggered a traffic nightmare that lingered for hours.
Mudslides and flooding also closed Niles Canyon Road in Fremont. The section of the road, which is also SR-84, was shut down between Old Canyon Road to Silver Springs Road, and officials had no estimate of when it would reopen.
David Lawrence, a weather service meteorologist, said that over the last 18 days, the state has averaged more than nine inches of rainfall a day — a remarkable amount that has seen some locations meet their average annual rainfall already."People will become complacent, but the ground is saturated," said Nancy Ward, the director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services."It is extremely, extremely dangerous.
Officials were also keeping their eyes on several rain-swollen waterways including the Salinas River near Spreckels, the Russian River near Hopland, the Navarro River at Navarro and the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz.
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