Di. You can see white smoke rising above the trees. This was right before three. Firefighters say the call came in as a tree fire. Possible started by lightening. Then the reports of a house fire on the same street. No one was inside the home. You can see firefighters in the roof. From the location of the fire weve seen pretty strong wind gusts. You can see the trees blowing with the wind. As we drive in ktnv live drive. Plenty of puddles on the ground as the storm moved from the central part of the valley east above us earlier. Ad lib reminder from firefighters. Be careful of lightning strikes and flash flooding right now Mount Charleston officials are reporting a full snowstorm. Its making driving conditions very dangerous. This is a picture they shared. The roads are very slippery and visibility is low. Drive and snow tires to make it up the mountain. Were not the only ones on the west coast getting slammed by Mother Nature. Right now california is getting hit hard. That storm is mo
Especially in the north bay and even small hail and lightning strikes and gusty wind up their things also died down quite a bit in this area where you see the orange wedges about an inch of rain per hour. Were still some moderate rain and in other parts of the bay heavy rain. If in San Francisco where rain is picking up we have about a quarter of an inch of rain per hour. I want to track this ring going over to the oakland where the game is just getting out and we will track the storm to the east bay. It will hit the east bay and about 30 minutes. More in store some businesses in mill valley are in areas prone to flooding. And theyre bracing for more rain. That includes several businesses on miller avenue not far from the downtown area. The public works director says the city has been working to clean out sewers. And a Restaurant Owner is among those not taking any chances. About 34 businesses that flood here every year and we put of the sump pumps and sandbags tomorrow morning at high
To hit the city has to me that there is an issue. There are san back on standby ready to go as we receive more rain tonight. We did see this last year and they are not taking any chances in that area. I did speak with a director in that area of mill valley and a half claimed some of these two were lines and they hope that this will help but they would not take any chances. The most critical time for the businesses in this area is tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. More of the showers will come through. Reporter with the high tide and overnight rain they are concerned. Catherine about 1500 still without service tonight. Catherine rain runoff is pouring out of the Oakland Hills today. Rock slides littered skyline drive and high winds made tree branches hazards for flooded intersections and clogged storm drains gave public works crews catherine another taste of what will be keeping them busy in the weeks to come. In this case its a tree root and we located the problem and its something that we cant f
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Are held hostage and thousands forced to flee as armed muslim rebels and Government Troops face off in intense fighting. In boulder, colorado, at least two people have been killed and flash flooding overnight has caused evacuations including five students from a nearby university told to get out. We have the latest. Dozens of people were rescued from their homes as floodwaters rose overnight. Water gushed down these steps and passage ways in boulder, where torrential rains caused major flashed floods. If that retaining wall comes down, were in trouble. A mandatory evacuation is in effect for jamestown where a number of homes collapsed. Colorado university, boulder will be closed today, the school sent students Text Messages to alert them of the floods. Ive seen roommates getting more nervous because of all the sirens and alerts. Studentsing living near a creek were told to head to higher ground. Maybe theres an inch between the foundation and actual ground level where our floor starts,