‘Sewer geysers’ explode on streets of San Francisco in historic flood
Historic heavy rains in the San Francisco area have erupted ‘sewer geysers’ on city streets, sending jets of water high into the air as the city’s overflowing sewers cannot contain the high volume of rainwater.
Videos of the geysers posted online:
Sewernados FULL VIDEO HERE https://t.co/oNQ46qxIMl #RiverAtmospheric #sanfrancisco #flood #rain #geyser #sewernado #Good year #New Year’s Eve pic.twitter.com/FCgGgWWx0b
— Jamy Donaldson (@goofyfooter) December 31, 2022
Water gushing out of the sewer? and gates at Vicente and 47th Ave near #OceanBeach #SanFrancisco #RiverAtmospheric #SFOceanBeach #sfrain pic.twitter.com/RSpgVvEmuJ
—Jack Knoebber (@jack_move) January 1, 2023
LOOK: #BNNUS Reports
When a winter storm brought heavy snowfall and flooding to #California, #SanFrancisco experienced one of its wettest days on record, with major flooding affecting most of the #BayAreawhich is currently under Flood Watch. pic.twitter.com/CZ3qqdFt7P
— Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (@gchahal) January 1, 2023
Social media jokes referenced sewage, drug paraphernalia and homeless tents being washed up in the street.
The rainfall approached a record single-day rainfall, and more rainfall is expected this week.
the San Francisco Chronicle reported:
Saturday’s strong storm was attributed to an atmospheric river that floated above the region for days, ending 2022. After a brief respite, weather forecasts called for the same to begin 2023.
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The deluge brought San Francisco to the brink of a single-day rainfall record as authorities handed out sandbags. As of 6 p.m., the National Weather Service reported the city was within 9 hundredths of an inch of the record of 5.54 inches set in 1994.
Authorities closed the 101 freeway in both directions near south San Francisco, stranding motorists in their cars as murky water lapped at their doorsteps. It took until 9 p.m. for the north and south traffic lanes to fully reopen.
As Breitbart News recently noted, California is in the midst of a three-year drought, and this year’s winter is expected to be another dry La Niña. But the rains came early and several storms combined to make the twelve days of Christmas particularly rainy – and even snowy, at higher altitudes. Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort now reports the deepest snow of any such resort in the United States, at over 165″ at the top.
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