This latest round of storms is being blamed for shutting down traffic in both directions for hours Sunday on Interstate 880 between Fremont and Union City.
Crews have been working all day to reopen at least some of the southbound lanes, but it's going to take a lot more work to reopen the northbound lanes.
"So, that debris flow pretty much went onto our highway causing some blockage of our drainage and causing that flooding in the northbound and southbound directions," said Pedro Quintana fromCaltrans brought in pumps to try to remove water from the southbound lanes first, hoping to reopen some lanes to traffic. But the northbound lanes, closer to the slippage, would need to be inspected by engineers to see if it was safe for trains to use the overpass.
The delay was so long that Armando Figuroa, says he was running out of gas. The sides of his truck were then covered in mud. In Spanish, he explained that he had to pull to the shoulder, where it was muddy, but because he has a big pickup truck, he was able to get out of there. "I see it, all on the road, yeah. Under the bridge, that's a lot of [expletive] water there," said Francisco Perez. "A lot of water…but that's just like the weather, we can't do nothing."
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