Kaiser cancels San Francisco marathons, runners still participate

run it anyways. San Francisco half marathon organizers had already changed the route out of Golden Gate Park to the Great Highway for fear of falling wind blown trees in the park, it got canceled. >> Nonetheless, but many participants chose to run part or all of it in the pelting rain and high cold winds. It was fun. >> Like, right? You just have to enjoy the moment. What can you do? >> It looks like a lot of people said, the heck with it. I'm just going to go run anyhow. We did? Yeah. >> We ran. >> Yeah, we came from Fairfield. >> When the sign here says rip currents, this is the most dangerous time anybody could ever go in the water for any reason. It's absolutely no reason to do it. Surfer or not. The Rip Curl sign might as well have said this will be your last swim. If you do. Yet one surfer we saw appeared to be ready to take that dare at Ocean Beach. The waves were high as they bashed onto the shoreline into increasingly high winds. As the morning wore on in San Francisco's western edition, falling Tree branches took out Muni electric bus power lines, forcing the closure of a block of Fillmore Street. During that closure, Muni technicians put the lines back up in miserable weather. The silver lining water galore for the dry season. According to the California Department of Water Resources, California has big six mega dams are on average about 74% full for Sunday. That puts them at 115% of their historic average. A good omen for water supplies in 2024. But the Sierra snowpack still lags at just 68% of historical levels, with water content at 65% of its historical average. This storm is going to deliver a big punch and a whole bunch of water. We're likely to see more tree falls, but what's really more important than all of that is what is yet to come. The more we get, the more we'll have in terms of storage, but the more w

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Published: Mon Feb 05 2024