On Tuesday in California, the latest atmospheric river storms brought more than just rain.
Hurricane-force winds in San Francisco caused two skyscraper windows to break.
One window even fell from the 43rd floor of the 555 California Street building and cracked on the street below.
The wind gust at San Francisco Airport reached 77 mph during the storm.
The Financial District in San Francisco, with its canyons, was where the strong winds caused havoc.
The gusts were so powerful that they broke two windows and pried one out of the frame of the building. Fortunately, not many pedestrians were on the street at the time.
San Francisco Fire Captain Jonathan Baxter said that this was an unusual occurrence.
The officials quickly evacuated the streets and issued a shelter-in-place order at around 2 p.m. One person who was sheltering in the building below took a video of the gaping hole, with winds and rain blowing inside the now-open window.
Broken glass littered the usually busy intersection, and one man said that the glass fell onto his car. However, no one was injured.
The building managers inspected every window before reopening the high-rise and the streets below.
Construction was underway on the 43rd floor, but the management said that they didn’t believe the work had anything to do with the broken windows.
In addition, the strong winds also caused a big rig and a car with a trailer on the Richmond San Rafael Bridge to overturn.
Crews closed the bridge, and they had to wait for the winds to subside before clearing the wrecks.
Maintenance crews had a couple of dry days to replace the windows before the next round of rain arrived for the weekend.
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