Strong winds that toppled trees and power lines exacerbated concerns, and more than 175,000 homes and businesses were without power Thursday morning. Wind gusts in excess of 100 mph were reported in Placer County's Alpine Meadows, and gusts of up to 85 mph forced cancelation of scores of flights at San Francisco International Airport.
Rivers and streams were rising to alarming levels, and authorities struggled to meet the demand for sandbags as residents scrambled to keep floodwaters out of homes.
The main reason they had to evacuate parts of Capitola and Watsonville and the mission area of Carmel near the Crossroads mall is that there were 45 foot rollers on the ocean and 25 foot waves coming ashore at high tide and this on top of the flooding down the rivers flooded everything pretty bad. I wouldn't have wanted to be in any ship under several hundred feet long with 45 foot rollers on any ocean also by the way.
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