San Francisco, CA
San Francisco assesses rain-storm damage, North Bay spared major outages
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San Francisco in between rain storms, some floor streets flooded
Rain dumped on San Francisco within the early morning hours Thursday, bringing down some timber.
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco is drying out and making ready for the following spherical of storms. Thursday’s storm blew in throughout the early morning hours, dumping rain all through the town.
The storm introduced down a big ficus tree on Mission Avenue close to South Van Ness.
“The excellent news is there have been no accidents, no property harm, apart from a big mild pole got here down and the Muni traces got here down as effectively,” stated Rachel Gordon from San Francisco’s Division of Public Works. “So, the affect is that Muni, the Mission Avenue buses needed to be re-routed for that.”
Public works crews scrambled to chop the tree and clear the lanes. Extra crews are on standby in case there may be extra harm from the storm.
The town says city foresters will come out to look at different timber within the space to see if in addition they could also be liable to collapse. “We all know that ficus timber are extra susceptible to failure,” Gordon stated. “We noticed that at this time. We expect that with this one, it wasn’t wind that introduced it down, but it surely was the saturation of the bottom after which the heavy cover on it.”
The storm made navigating by the town difficult.
Commuters needed to cope with standing water on the Central Freeway. The rainwater additionally turned lots of the floor streets into rivers. Metropolis staff scrambled from one intersection to the following, working to clear clogged catch basins.
“It began out gradual, however as soon as folks began waking up, the calls got here in for clogged catch basins flooding and stuff,” stated Paul Quibell from San Francisco’s Public Utilities Fee. “So, that is what we’re doing now.
“Employees stated they’d encounter one flooded intersection even whereas making an attempt to get to a different. “We had been headed to Jones and Sutter, and we discovered 4 simply alongside our approach getting there and that is the primary one we have really had to make use of the truck to wash out,” stated Quibell. “The others we might simply rake the particles off the catch basin.”
Across the metropolis, folks navigated within the rain, stepping over puddles and hustling to get to their locations. Drought acutely aware folks stated the rain is a welcome sight, even when it makes exercising somewhat chilly. “Adore it when it occurs, hate it when it is gone,” stated Jeff Darling.
“Hate it when it occurs, like it when it is gone.”
Whereas San Francisco is drying out, preparations are already underway for the following spherical of storms set to hit the Bay Space in only a matter of days. The town is asking folks to clear these catch basins in the event that they see any particles that would gradual the drainage of water from the following storm.
No main PG&E outages throughout winterlike storm
There have been no main PG&E outages within the North Bay throughout the in a single day storm on Thursday.
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In the meantime, in Marin County the reasonably extreme storm ended with surprisingly good outcomes. Luckily, Pacific Gasoline and Electrical clients had few issues within the North Bay.
“PG&E meteorologists have been monitoring the storm for days and we anticipated it to be fairly robust. Because it approached, the impacts had been a lot much less important that we anticipated and it was downgraded from a class three in some areas to a class two,” stated PG&E Public Data Officer Megan McFarland.
The utility’s electrical system, susceptible to falling branches and winds, had only a few outages; the overwhelming majority of them affecting lower than 50 clients every.
“Usually occasions once we do see a storm coming in and we all know there’s gonna be excessive winds, we’ll step up our tree trimming much more within the days of the storm approaching so that may assist minimize down on the outages,” stated McPartland. Energy line inspections and upkeep have hardened the system.
Water is one other matter. Stung by flooding final 12 months, San Rafael’s Fourth Avenue retailers sand bagged up. “Final 12 months we had it flooded proper right here. We needed to put sandbags out as a result of one of many drains over right here will need to have been clogged. However, yeah, it might get ugly,” stated Wrap N Kabob Restaurant Proprietor Chris Kimiyaie.
One of many advantages of the rain: extra water in storage for a county that is had good climate luck final 12 months and this 12 months. This may be greatest seen at Marin’s Phoenix Reservoir.
Now if this reservoir had been to go up simply one other two to 3 toes, one thing that would simply occur in an enormous storm, then it will overflow and exit the spillway. There’s would go down stream, some to be caught, however the majority of it going out into the bay.
Nonetheless one Marin resident stated the one actual answer for the Bay Space is desalination. “I learn an article some time again that stated that every family must choose up one other 4 bucks a month which I might haven’t any drawback with and, lots of people I’ve talked to stated they would not both,” stated Marin resident Al Euphrat.
The storm approaching this weekend doesn’t seem to PG&E a minimum of, to be a lot of a risk.
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San Francisco, CA
Child saves day after telling parents about San Francisco house fire
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco firefighters say a small child helped save the day when a fire broke out outside a home.
The child witnessed the flames after they stared at the house on 35th Avenue in the Richmond neighborhood.
He told his parents to call 911.
And was very excited to be the hero of the day.
SFFD: “Luca, what did you see up there?”
Luca: “There was a fire, and it was this big.”
SFFD: “And what color were the flames?”
Luca: “It was orange and red.”
SFFD: “And what did you say to mommy and daddy?”
Luca: “Call 911!”
SFFD: “And did you save the day?”
Luca: “Yes.”
SFFD: “Yay. Thank you Luca!”
Crews put out the flames.
It’s a good thing young Luca is keeping a watchful eye on the neighborhood, and happens to love fire trucks.
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San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Giants Could Rush Multiple Triple-A Pitchers to MLB
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The San Francisco Giants pitching staff is facing serious injury issues right now, and it could lead to some prospects being rushed into playing at the MLB level before they are ready.
They are currently working with a two-man rotation and will be without a starting pitcher ready to pitch after Sunday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Alex Pavlovic of NBCS stated on the game’s broadcast that the Giants may need to call up one or two Triple-A pitchers as “they just need people who can throw innings.”
“They’re trying to sort through right now, and Bob Melvin said today they’re still trying to sort through what they can do for the next three games. Spencer Howard will probably be the bolt guy tomorrow, but after that, a couple days they have to figure out until they get back to Jordan Hicks on Thursday.”
Among potential options listed for San Francisco were Carson Whisenhunt, Carson Seymour, Mason Black and Kai-Wei Teng.
The best option among those names is the left-handed Whisenhunt, who is the No. 2 prospect in the Giant’s farm system.
The 23-year-old was a second round selection in the 2022 MLB draft. In his first Triple-A season he has a 4.87 ERA and 1.574 WHIP. He strikes out a lot of batters, but has struggled with command. That’s been the case for pretty much his entire baseball career.
Seymour is a 25-year-old prospect who is in his first season at the Triple-A level. He has a 4.33 ERA and 1.604 WHIP.
Next up is Black, a 2021 draft pick. He’s the No. 7 Giants prospect and has already been given a chance in the Majors this season, but it didn’t go well. In four appearances back in May, he had a 8.79 ERA across 14.1 innings pitched.
The 24-year-old walked seven batters while striking out just 10 and gave up a staggering four home runs. His walk issues have persisted in the minors, but he at least has been more of a strikeout-heavy pitcher there.
Teng is another pitcher who already got called up for a short stint this season but was quickly sent back down when things went sideways.
In just 11 innings pitched over four starts, he had a 9.82 ERA and 2.091 WHIP. He averaged 6.5 BB/9 and just 5.7 K/9. The numbers have not been much better in the minors this year, falling off a cliff after a couple of promising seasons.
He’s the No. 22 prospect in the farm but throwing him out on the mound right now seems like it would be a recipe for disaster.
Whisenhunt and Seymour could make sense as they haven’t gotten a chance to prove themselves in the MLB and have at least been a bit promising.
Black and Teng have been poor in their chances and are clearly not ready, but could be the options they turn to by default.
Whatever decision the Giants make, they need to hope their staff can return to health.
Blake Snell and Robbie Ray could be making their way back soon, but may not factor into these next few games due to rest.
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Giants Reportedly Looking for Ways to Give Star Pitcher ‘A Break’
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It’s no secret to anyone that this San Francisco Giants team has suffered injuries that have played a major factor in how disappointing this season has been so far.
Star player after star player, contributor after contributor seemingly leave the roster whenever some bit of continutity is starting to form.
That makes it hard for any team to perform well, especially when it involves the starting pitching staff.
However, it sounds like the Giants are about to get a batch of good news soon as three of their veteran contributors, Blake Snell being one of them, have made their way to Triple-A during their rehab assignments as they inch closer to their Major League returns.
This would be a huge boost for this team as Keaton Winn just hit the injured list alongside star outfielder Mike Yastrzemski.
San Francisco certainly needs Snell back, and back soon, as there is some concern surrounding how many innings their high-profile signing Jordan Hicks has thrown since being converted to a starter from a reliever role.
On Saturday, Hicks surpassed the most innings he’s ever thrown in a season, toppling the previous mark of 77.2 during his rookie year in 2018 with the 80.2 he has already at in this campaign.
This was always a possibility, and based on how well he was throwing, a certainty at some point.
However, the question becomes what the Giants are going to do with him going forward?
According to Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area, they “want to find a way to give him a break at some point.”
That might sound nice, but there are three open spots in their rotation with Snell and Winn on the injured list. It doesn’t seem like San Francisco wants to call up some of their Triple-A arms, but they will have to if they are going to give Hicks some time off.
What that looks like is unknown, as well.
Maybe he still goes out there and operates like an opener so he continues to face Major League hitters but doesn’t keep wracking up frames on his arm.
Or maybe, he actually gets time off and doesn’t pitch for a month or two.
Whatever the decision is made will almost certainly stem from how quickly Snell is able to recover and get back into this rotation.
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