A deadly “bomb cyclone” storm hammered the San Francisco Bay Area with high winds, fallen trees, power outages and evacuation warnings, authorities reported.
The storm, which hit Wednesday, Jan. 4, and continued overnight, spawned wind gusts of up to 101 mph in the area, the National Weather Service reported.
In Occidental, near Santa Rosa, a redwood toppled onto a house overnight and killed a baby inside, firefighters reported Thursday morning.
In Fairfield, a 19-year-old woman died after her vehicle hydroplaned on standing water and crashed into a pole at about 8:30 a.m. Jan. 4, city police said in a news release.
The bodies of at least three people have been found in floodwaters in south Sacramento County following storms on Saturday, Dec. 31, while another man was killed the same day in Santa Cruz when a tree collapsed at Lighthouse Field State Beach.
A vehicle drives on a flooded road in Sebastopol on Thursday. Excessive rain, heavy snow and landslides are expected to wallop California through Thursday as a series of winter storms rip across the western US coast, prompting Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency.
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Family friends remove items from the mobile home where 2-year-old Aeon Tocchini was killed by a fallen redwood tree in Occidental on Wednesday.
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Powerful waves batter the Capitola Wharf in Capitola after the storm destroyed a section of the structure on Thursday.
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Slade Watson from Hermosa Beach, runs as waves come crashing over the break wall of Redondo Beach Harbor, where kids played in the spray of wave following a storm clearing in Los Angeles County on Thursday.
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In an aerial view, the Los Angeles River flows at a powerful rate as a huge storm slams into the West Coast on Thursday.
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Laura Nussbaum moves her belongings to higher ground from a homeless encampment on Bannon Island along the Sacramento River in Sacramento.
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PG&E utilities workers clear a fallen tree which took down some power lines in the Bella Vista neighborhood in Oakland.
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Roads are closed due to the flooded Encino Creek between Balboa Blvd. and Woodley Ave. in Encino.
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Rain clouds shroud the skyline of downtown Los Angeles.
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Miles Gomez, 9, plays with his twin brother, Edison, after a series of storms blasted communities surrounding South Lake Tahoe on Jan. 4.
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Cars sit stuck in a flooded underpass on Wednesday at Webster St. and 34th St., which has been flooded since last weekend’s storm, in Oakland.
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The Arzate family, visiting from Phoenix, wait to cross Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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A sign warning of debris flow near Forest Falls.
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Evening rush hour traffic stacks up on the Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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A gust of wind blows a pedestrian’s umbrella inside out in downtown Los Angeles.
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Caltrans crews removed multiple fallen trees blocking U.S. Highway 101 in Humboldt County near Trinidad last week.
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Mathew Prado, who works at the Sheraton Hotel at Universal Studio, sweeps water from the front drive. Heavy rain is falling in Los Angeles as another winter storm moves in.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Mannequins are covered with plastic along West 8th Street in Los Angeles as a light rain falls on Tuesday.
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Fresh snow coats a mountain Sunday in South Lake Tahoe.
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Caltrans crews check large boulders that fell onto Highway 50 just east of Kyburz during a storm in El Dorado National Park on Sunday. No vehicles were hit.
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A man moves furniture while flood water enters a home in San Francisco on Monday.
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A snow plow passes pedestrians in South Lake Tahoe on Saturday.
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Patsy Costello sat trapped in her vehicle, surrounded by two feet of flood water, for over an hour in Pleasant Hill on Saturday.
(Jose Carlos Fajardo / Bay Area News Group via Associated Press)
