Photos: Bay Area storm flooding traps drivers, forces evacuations

An atmospheric river storm dumped more than seven inches of rain on some parts of the Bay Area on Friday and Saturday, sending creeks over their banks and causing flooding that closed roads and trapped drivers, damaged homes and businesses and forced some evacuations.

Here are photos from around the region:

Nurse Katie Leonard, of Pleasant Hill, hands a cup of hot tea to Patsy Costello, 88, of Pleasant Hill, as she sits trapped in her vehicle for over an hour on Astrid Drive in Pleasant Hill, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)  Patsy Costello, 88, of Pleasant Hill, holds onto the car

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