If you need any reminder of the sheer force of Mother Nature, just drive down any street, in any San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood. Debris, fallen branches, toppled trees, damaged homes and vehicles is scattered about everywhere.
Even during this extraordinary nearly three months of winter weather, Tuesday's onslaught of cyclonic winds will long be remembered.
"Wow, even by the standards of what has turned out to be one of our most extraordinary winter seasons in a very long time, yesterday stands out," the National Weather Service said of the storm. "Explosive cyclogenesis over the eastern Pacific resulted in a 984 mb low pressure center just west of the San Mateo County coast, and associated widespread strong and damaging winds and flooding rains."
While the winds subsided late Tuesday night, the rains did not. The weather service issued an overnight flood advisory for the entire Bay Area.