‘Sewer Geysers’ Explode onto San Francisco Streets in Historic Flood

Breitbart – by Joel B. Pollak

Historic, heavy rainfall in the San Francisco area has caused “sewer geysers” to explode on city streets, sending jets of water high into the air as the city’s overwhelmed drains cannot contain the high volume of rainwater.

Videos of the geysers circulated online:

Jokes on social media referred to sewage, drug paraphernalia, and homeless tents washing down the street.

The rainfall neared a record high for precipitation in a single day, and more rainfall is expected this week.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

Saturday’s heavy storm was attributed to an atmospheric river that floated over the region for days, bringing a soggy end to 2022. After a brief respite, weather forecasts called for more of the same to start 2023.

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The deluge brought San Francisco to the edge of an all-time one-day rainfall record as officials passed out sandbags. By 6 p.m., the National Weather Service reported that the city was within 9 hundredths of an inch of the all-tie record of 5.54 inches set in 1994.

Officials closed Highway 101 in both directions near South San Francisco, stranding motorists in their cars as murky water lapped at their doors. It took until 9 p.m. for both northward and southward lanes of traffic to fully reopen.

As Breitbart News recently noted, California is in the midst of a three-year drought, and this year’s winter was predicted to be another dry La Niña phenomenon. But rains came early, and several storms have combined to make the twelve days of Christmas particularly rainy — and even snowy, at higher elevations. The ski resort of Mammoth Mountain now reports the deepest snow of any such resort in the U.S., at over 165″ at the summit.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/01/01/watch-sewer-geysers-explode-onto-san-francisco-streets-in-historic-flood/

5 thoughts on “‘Sewer Geysers’ Explode onto San Francisco Streets in Historic Flood”

  1. It sure is hard to know what’s real weather and what’s the manipulated variety. Either way, these explosions are more indicators of the intentional neglect and demise of the united States. We’ll likely be seeing more and more of these types of events as more of the money stolen from us goes everywhere but to our own needs, be it infrastructure, housing, or anything else necessary for survival. Repairs and upkeep are vital, and they cost money. Can’t wait ’till we halt this fleecing and begin to own what’s ours. There’s a feeling that comes when everything is in good repair; helps one rest easy.

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    1. What we are looking at here is the lids getting lifted off of the storm drains and the water shooting up and then going back down. The water looks very clean. You do know this place is very close to the ocean, right? If you have a huge rain and you get the drains completely full, as the tides shift it is going to back up against the full pipe, just like the ocean goes up the river.
      That is what I believe I see. And yes, I am disappointed that this torrential rain didn’t wash San Francisco into the ocean.

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