San Francisco sees mudslides, flooded homes

SAN FRANCISCO – Water was seen cascading down a staircase within a home in San Francisco’s Bayview District.

Main flooding on Le Conte Avenue broken a number of houses. They had been red-tagged, leaving residents with no place to remain on New Yr’s Eve.

“It’s undoubtedly a tough solution to begin the New Yr however we’re going to do one of the best we will,” mentioned Jeremy Jacquot, who lives on the road.

Jacquot took us inside to see the injury. Neighbors mentioned rain runoff from the hillside behind their houses flooded their yards and patios.

“As a result of there was a little bit of a landslide, the entire grime got here down and blocked all of the gutters so the water actually had nowhere to go,” mentioned neighbor Heba Williams.

Video shared by the San Francisco Hearth Division reveals a number of toes of standing water towards a sliding glass door.

“One of many firefighters says she was in waist-deep water,” mentioned Captain Jonathan Baxter. “We needed to get artistic with the households and in a few of these homes we used sandbags to create a river from the yard down the staircases to the entrance door.”

“In all of the unhappiness this brings, we’re fortunate to have neighbors who’re all right here for one another. Everybody went into every others houses, everyone knows one another.>

Torrential rains drenched town, inflicting flooding, toppling bushes, and triggering mudslides.

There was a mudslide close to the principle gate of Bernal Heights. One other slide blocked lanes alongside the Nice Freeway close to Sea Cliff.

On Cesar Chavez Road, some drivers ignored the flooding and the street closure. One driver in a small Honda needed to be rescued by firefighters after his automotive received caught and began floating.

Firefighters say they responded to a whole bunch of calls all through the day. There’s no stories of any storm-related accidents or deaths in San Francisco.