'That's a longer distance than going from Giants Stadium to Dodgers Stadium and back.' 'We've already removed about 4,000 trees that fell into our infrastructure in our service area and about 5,700 power poles and more than 900 miles of powerlines,' PG&E Spokeswoman Mayra Tostado said. The calls for service have come often across the Bay Area. The center is staffed 24/7 to support the restoration efforts in Santa Clara County due to storm damage. Staff was on hand at the Cupertino Operations Emergency Center Tuesday, at the ready as the 15th storm of 2023 blew through Bay Area.

High winds keeping PG&E, tree service companies on alert of more falling trees and March storms to report their damage in a survey to help them gather that information. The county is looking for residents impacted by the Feb. Santa Cruz County is in the process of gathering preliminary damage information from county residents impacted by the storms to submit a case for state and federal funding. 'We're still recovering from 2017,' Santa Cruz County spokesperson Jason Hoppin said, 'We've got roads that haven't been fixed from that storm so these things are kind of layering on top of each other.' In others, like a portion of Main Street in Soquel that washed out weeks ago, temporary fixes like steel plates on the road are the only things giving the residents access to the rest of their community.Ĭounty officials saying at the time the Soquel road washed out earlier in March that all of the new storm impacts are adding to an already overwhelmed to-do list of repairs they're trying to make. In some of those areas, partial road closures are still in effect.

In less than three months, the county saw back-to-back flooding, extreme debris on beaches and even roadways giving out. Rain and intense winds hit the area again Tuesday. One of the hardest hit areas by the repeated storms this year has been Santa Cruz County.

Highway underpass tornado