San Francisco Belt Railroad

The San Francisco Belt Railroad’s five-stall roundhouse in its namesake city has been preserved. David Lustig

For those of us lucky enough to chase trains on the San Francisco peninsula when it was served by many railroads, life was good.

Besides being able to see Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Western Pacific, there was the San Francisco Belt Railroad, a local switching operation that vigorously served the many waterfront docks alongside the eastern side of the city and as far west as the Presidio in the west. Nobody had heard of Union Pacific.

Today it is UP all the way except for a few truncated miles of right-of-way subsequently renamed the San Francisco Bay Railroad. The Belt railroad is history, too.

But thanks to a little creative architectural planning, traces of the city’s own were saved for future use, exemplified by the Belt’s five-stall concrete roundhouse at the intersection of Sansome and Lombard on the Embarcadero across from Pier 29. Converted to private offices, the building, erected in the 1910s, and the adjacent sandhouse, have even been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Most of the line in downtown San Franciso was paved over after the railroad quit the area in the 1990s and today light rail, in the form of San Francisco’s Municipal Railway runs on the former right of way.

Now an office building, the preserved roundhouse is located at the intersection of Sansome and Lombard on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, across from Pier 29. David Lustig

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While the sights and sounds of freight railroading no longer are an integral part of the area, if you look carefully at what was the roundhouse, details of its heritage have been carefully woven into the repurposed building.

The stall doors have been replaced with non-moving facsimiles, with the center door now the entrance. While rails have been embedded into what is now a courtyard just outside the entrance, the switches, and switch points are absent, and there is no room for the flanged wheels that will never tread them again. Even the appearance of smokestacks has been preserved.

The purists among us may be aghast, but for the rest of us, to still be able to see an image of a railroading past is most welcome.

Most of the Belt Line in downtown San Franciso was paved over after the railroad quit the area in the 1990s and today light rail, in the form of San Francisco’s Municipal Railway runs on the former right of way. David Lustig

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The Beehive’s early clientele were Pittsburgh’s “neo-beatniks”: artists and art students, those studying at nearby colleges and universities, musicians, writers, filmmakers, out-of-work ne’er-do-wells and those still trying to find their way.

By David Rullo 

The following is an excerpt from David Rullo’s Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the ’90s Scene to be released by Arcadia Publishing.

Standing on the corner of Fourteenth and East Carson Streets, the Beehive Coffeehouse and Dessertery was hard to miss.

Painted in vibrant primary colors with a yellow logo that featured an image of a woman sporting the dated hairdo that shares the name of the café, the Beehive seemed better suited for San Francisco or Greenwich Village than Pittsburgh’s South Side.

Given its looks and wares—espresso and cappuccino drinks priced at a premium in a neighborhood better known for its shots and beers—the Beehive seemed destined to fail before it ever launched.

Lisa Young, a longtime friend of co-owner Scott Kramer, expressed doubts when she learned of the new café from her friend. “I told him, how are you ever going to make money with a coffee shop, but he said, ‘No, it’s a real thing. We went across the country and to other cities, and there’s coffee shops in them.’ I said, ‘OK, good luck with that.’”

Those fears were alleviated in February 1991, when the Beehive opened its doors. A large and soon-to-be-loyal clientele filled the shop in its first few hours of operation.

“I remember there was a line around the block,” Kramer recalled.

Scott had conceptualized the coffeehouse with his business partner, Steve Zumoff. The pair decided to gamble on coffee and rich desserts in a city that was the home of ex–steel workers and third-generation immigrant families from Eastern Europe and Italy. And while the idea and location might not sound so outlandish today, in the early ’90s, Pittsburgh had none of the hipster or foodie trappings that would soon see it named one of the country’s most livable cities.

The original business plan articulated modest goals for the new café. “Said business is intended to be a coffee shop with unique features that would differentiate it from other businesses located in the area,” Kramer and Zumoff wrote. The coffeehouse was “intended to create a ‘Bohemian’ atmosphere. Persons regarded as bohemians are traditionally those with artistic and literary interests who disregard conventional standards of behavior.”

Steve and Scott’s vision might have seemed a stretch given the Reagan-esque feel that still dominated much of the country, but there were signs that things were beginning to change.

In 1990, the New York Times ran a story by Margot Slade, titled “Campus Cafes Attract ‘Neo-Beatniks.’” In it, she wrote that “new and newly popular coffeehouses are serving up poetry and progressive music in rooms heavy with smoke and intellectual pretension.”

The Beehive’s early clientele were Pittsburgh’s “neo-beatniks”: artists and art students, those studying at nearby colleges and universities, musicians, writers, filmmakers, out-of-work ne’er-do-wells and those still trying to find their way.

While society may have been struggling with labels for this new generation at the time—slackers, bohos and other names were bandied about—there was no denying the initial stirrings of Generation X in the city. This group would eventually help transform Pittsburgh from its industrial past to a future that included an economy based on technology, healthcare, universities and hip restaurants, an expanding art scene, vibrant downtown living and converted brown spaces.

Two regions were instrumental in reimaging Pittsburgh: Oakland and the South Side. Home to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and Carlow College (now Carlow University), plus several hospitals, Oakland was an incubator for the city and its young, hip students. The South Side, on the other hand, offered cheap rent, underground art galleries and studios and access to downtown, and it was near Point Park College (now Point Park University) and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Both offered frequent buses and walkable communities.

Scott and Steve first imagined the Beehive at a location on Atwood Street in Oakland. It made sense—the two had attended college at the University of Pittsburgh, lived nearby in the city’s East End and were enthused by the university district that seemed ready-made for a coffee revolution.

When the location fell through, the pair shifted their focus to the other side of the Monongahela River—East Carson Street in the city’s South Side neighborhood. In the process, they and the organic growth around their coffee shop helped the struggling community develop something it needed for more than a decade—an identity.

The Beehive and the businesses that opened around it—Slacker, Groovy, Dee’s Café and more—helped it identify itself as both a home to the nascent ’90s art scene and an entertainment destination. It was able to do this at a time when much of the city was fighting to claw its way back from the collapse of the steel industry.

To fight this postindustrial morass, Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri developed a plan he called “Renaissance II,” meant to address the deindustrialization with bold initiatives.

Caligiuri’s blueprint reimagined the city’s physical landscape, adding landmarks like the all-glass PPG Place and One Oxford Center. By the time of his death in 1988, the success that was beginning to be felt downtown hadn’t yet made it to neighborhoods like Lawrenceville or Bloomfield, and it would never touch some of the areas surrounding Pittsburgh. Five decades after most of the steel mills closed, the rails and barges filled with coal ceased deliveries and the last miner clocked out, cities like McKeesport, Duquesne and Braddock are still waiting for their redevelopment opportunities.

East Carson Street, the main thoroughfare through the South Side, would become home to art studios and galleries, coffeehouses, vintage clothing boutiques catering to an alternative audience, concert venues, high-end condominiums, restaurants, dive bars, sports bars, Irish bars, hookah bars and virtually any other type of bar that could be imagined. Before any of those other businesses existed, however, there was the Beehive, which found fortune on its opening day.

The coffeehouse proved to be so successful that on most weeknights and through the weekends, if you didn’t arrive early enough, you didn’t get a seat.

Customers often stood three deep because the tables were filled. Those who arrived early in the day or never left occupied the mismatched tables and chairs along the right wall of the café. A huddled mass stood next to the filled seats, balancing mugs of coffee and cappuccinos, waiting to pounce on a table if anyone seated left. A third line stood in front of the counter, ordering drinks and desserts or chatting with baristas.

At the front of the coffeehouse, a round table was situated in a window space. It became premium seating that was typically filled by regulars or special guests like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

In the rear of the café, people played pinball. Remarkably, the Beehive had done the near impossible and made playing the analog game popular again. In the years to come, Steve would play an integral role in revitalizing pinball culture throughout the region.

Others were content to stand in the open space, leaving little to no room between them for anyone who needed to visit the highly graffitied bathrooms.

The coffeehouse became a viable third space for many Pittsburgh Gen Xers, who used it as a place to plan artistic collaborations, play pinball, chess or Magic: The Gathering. It was also a place where customers could discuss theater, read a book from one of the shelves located in the space, meet before a party or simply get together in the pre-internet days to share a sense of community.

Before there was a Starbucks on every corner, before a sitcom featuring six friends that hung out at a local coffeehouse ever aired, before alternative culture became pop culture and before Pittsburgh began landing on the top of “Best of Cities to Live” lists, the Beehive brought coffee culture, and with it a healthy dose of art and alternative lifestyles, to the Steel City.

Scott and Steve decided to create a coffeehouse that catered to an artsy clientele while they traveled across the country to attend a Jerry Garcia concert. The two had met as students at the University of Pittsburgh—Scott was a business major, and Steve studied psychology and worked at Zelda’s, a destination bar for many Pitt students, where Scott often stopped for a drink. It was at another Oakland bar, Thirsty’s, during the watering hole’s regular Grateful Dead night that the two first discussed the idea of opening a coffeehouse together.

Scott’s objective was clear from an early age: to be an entrepreneur and find some way to combine that goal with art. He started young, selling flavored ice cubes at Taylor Allderdice High School’s baseball field before moving on to cutting grass in the city’s East End, where he grew up. He kept his landscaping business while in college before adding the unusual title of tie-dye T-shirt creator and distributor to his resumé.

Rather than sell the T-shirts he was making door to door or in stores, Scott found a distributor in New York that sold the shirts to other companies. The shirts were so well received that several rock bands bought them to use—after printing their logos on them—as tour shirts. After receiving word that the dye he used in his shirts was carcinogenic, Scott shut down the space he had stacked with washers, laid off his few employees and began thinking about his next business venture.

It was a New England sales representative Scott had hired to sell his shirts who first mentioned he had noticed coffeehouses opening up in a few cities throughout the United States. “He told me that coffee was going to be big and asked me to make tie-dyed T-shirts that they could sell in coffee shops.” Kramer remembered. “It was an idea I bounced off of Steve, and then, traveling across the country to see the Dead, we started checking out coffeehouses.”

In the 2,400-plus miles between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, the pair decided a coffeehouse was at least something they should consider. In Chicago, they took particular note of one new chain that hadn’t yet reached the East Coast.

By the late ’80s, coffee was beginning to come into its own in America. Manufacturers were starting to experiment with various flavors, enticing those who weren’t fans of the acrid brew straight, and some cafés were selling a new addition to their line of caffeinated drinks: iced coffees. Of course, once a Washington store decided to create a chain, coffee, it seemed, found its footing.

Opened in Seattle in 1971, Starbucks had expanded to the Windy City by the next decade. The coffeehouse was proof that patrons desired cafés where they could buy Americanized versions of European espresso drinks and desserts and hang out for hours at a time. The coffeehouses revitalized the idea of ’60s cafes like those found in Greenwich Village, where folk troubadours performed, and radicals argued their beliefs. Starbucks found a way to make the coffeehouse safe for the suburbs. And while Scott and Steve weren’t yet sure they would be opening a coffeehouse—they weren’t even coffee drinkers—they did take note of the growing scene and menu at Starbucks.

Steve told Scott about Shapiro’s Coffee, a shop in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, where he had grown up, that had been in business for more than a decade. Kramer remembered the café as something between the more traditional diner and college coffeehouse.

In 1990, the two took one last decisive trip, traveling to Toronto, Canada. It was there, after visiting Just Desserts, an establishment Steve recalled from a trip north in the ’80s, that served multiple types of tea, that they settled on opening a coffeehouse.

The voyage north provided more than simply inspiration, Steve recalled. The city had a bar on Queen’s Street with an unusual name that caught both Steve’s and Scott’s eye—the Beehive. The saloon was open for only approximately two months and was best remembered for its connection to the Pittsburgh coffeehouse. “I think there was a display outside made from a bunch of Bic lighters,” Steve remembered. “It was really colorful.”

The name, Scott and Steve would find out shortly after opening, had wings with more than their coffeehouse. A Pittsburgh strip club had opened with the same name before going out of business. “We used to get calls for it from time to time. That was interesting.” Scott recalled, “We would sometimes get people asking if certain girls were working. We would tell the caller the girl had the night off.”

Those early trips proved useful for the partners, who found inspiration for other aspects of their future coffeehouse.

Kramer remembered that in Toronto, the buildings were colorful. In Harrisburg, patrons poured coffee from French presses. In Chicago, they found a pamphlet in Starbucks that explained how to make the perfect cappuccino. They also began learning about roasting beans and initiated the task of deciding which coffee brand they liked best.

After their Oakland location fell through, Scott thought back to the South Side, an area he had previously visited when considering a few possible real estate investments. While that particular venture never materialized, he thought it might provide a home for the Beehive. “We came across the location,” he said, “called the landlord, who said it was available. He said, ‘I’ll do the electric, and I’ll do the heating and air conditioning, and I’ll charge you guys like $1,100 or $1,200 dollars a month.’ We took it.”

The neighborhood, Steve said, wasn’t a last resort, but it was fairly close to a final destination. “Maybe it’s because we were young and not yet a business, but no one wanted to rent us property. The South Side was still pretty run down,” he said. “It hadn’t yet become what it is today.”

The storefront they finally rented had been Lando’s Pharmacy in its previous incarnation, and it wasn’t in great shape when the two agreed to lease it. Inside, along with pounds of asbestos that needed to be removed, were remnants of the building’s former life, including shelves and counters, which found use as part of the coffeehouse.

Scott and Steve, as well as their new landlord, who worked as a contractor, rehabbed the building and began creating the design of the iconic café.

The total amount invested was close to $28,000, Scott said. To help recoup the money they put in, they secured a bank loan of $10,000. That money paid for the rent of the building; the equipment, coffee and supplies needed to open; the furniture; and even the plumbing and carpentry.

Like the building, the Beehive’s original espresso machine had seen better days, or as Scott remembered, “It was a piece of garbage. We paid $2,500 for it. It was the most expensive thing we bought and in three or six months we had to buy a new one.”

Tim Kaulen is the founder and executive director of Industrial Arts Workshop, a not-for-profit that works to inspire artistic literacy by offering enrichment opportunities that advance the understanding and process of sculpture-making artists and their works. In the early 1990s, however, he was a recent graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and a street artist creating works inspired by and part of the city’s post-industrial landscape. He was also an important link between the South Side that existed before the Beehive and what it involved into after the coffeehouse had opened. “There was community there,” Tim said of the neighborhood pre-Beehive. “It had all the amenities there which allowed it to be a cohesive community with a real culture and real tradition and real character.” He said that while the South Side was affected by the collapse of the steel industry, it never fell into the complete disrepair of other neighboring communities.

It was that foundation of essential businesses, Tim ventured, that saved the area from total collapse.

“There were no chain stores; everything was mom and pop–run businesses—a couple of bakeries, a poultry shop, a couple of used bookstores, there were a couple of art galleries,” he said. That didn’t save it from experiencing some of the blight felt by areas like Hazelwood, especially after J&L Steel Works closed its mill on the banks of the Monongahela River in 1987.

In some ways, he said, the South Side of the late ’80s and early ’90s was trapped in another time. As an example, he cited the realty company from which he rented his apartment. The front office was staffed by two men with tight crew cuts who wore short-sleeve button shirts and ties. “It was literally like walking into the 1950s,” Tim said. “When I wrote a check, they corrected me on exactly how to print the name and numbers. They schooled me every step of the way.”

Tim found the South Side, which would soon be home to the Beehive, a welcome place for both the existing community and the boarded-up buildings and empty lots that would soon play an important role in the art he would create.

It was in this neighborhood that the Beehive was born. Scott would earn the respect of many of the coffeehouse’s neighbors by going door to door, introducing himself and telling them of the plans he and Steve had for the storefront. At the top of his list at the moment, however, was the daunting task of redesigning the interior of the building, creating a logo and letter mark for the new business and getting art on the walls. For that, they would turn to a nearby resource: the artists and students already living on the South Side.

David Rullo is an award winning journalist and a senior writer at the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. His
work has appeared in national and international newspapers, magazines and literary journals. He has spent the better part of five decades exploring and contributing to the city’s art and literary scene. Rullo’s work has been exhibited and heard in Pittsburgh’s cultural district and his bands Digital Buddha, Architects of the Atmosphere and Centrale Electrique have explored the boundaries between electronic music, spoken word, performance art and experimental music. His music can be heard in the score for the art film The Pittsburgh Nude Project. Rullo’s collection of poetry, Tired Scenes from a City Window, was published in 2015. A Pittsburgh native, he lives in the city’s South Hills with his wife and son, where he enjoys strong coffee, good bourbon and great books.

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TORONTO — Brandon Belt said before the start of this series that he hoped to beat Logan Webb and joked, “I just want to embarrass his whole family.” The former Giants first baseman certainly did his best and batted at his 739 total feet of flyballs in their first two appearances, but Toronto didn’t have to leave the stadium to beat Webb harder than any other team this season.

The Blue Jays brought nine men to the plate and tagged Webb for five runs in the first inning, putting the Giants in a rare hole that proved too deep to climb out. The Giants lost the middlegame of their series 6-1 and lost away at Oracle Park for the first time since Memorial Day weekend. They broke a San Francisco-era record of 10 consecutive away wins.

A night after the Giants defeated the Blue Jays’ top starter Kevin Gausman with a game of bullpen, Toronto dosed San Francisco with the same medicine. A quartet of Blue Jays relievers limited the Giants to one run on six hits — three by LaMonte Wade Jr. — or the number Toronto hit in the first inning alone.

Austin Slater, coming on for Michael Conforto (left hamstring strain) early in the second half, made the Giants’ only run with a 402-foot solo shot over Tim Horton’s shield in right midfield. The Giants only got two other runners into goal position, Wade with a wild pitch after his leadoff single in the first and Patrick Bailey with a scoring double in the seventh inning.

The Blue Jays’ five earned runs in the first inning was the most Webb had ever conceded in a single inning and represented their worst season for a single game.

Belt entered the box at the bottom of the first pass, a run was already on the board and a man was on first base. At first it looked like he’d executed his intentions and blasted a ball deep into left center field, but had to settle for an RBI double as the ball landed a few yards from the wall. He fell just short again on his second attack, sending Luis Matos onto the runway in midfield for the lowest point of the game.

As Belt returned to the dugout, he appeared to exchange a few words with his former teammate up the hill.

While the Blue Jays marked Webb for six hits — four doubles — in the first inning, Belt’s 98.8 mph two-bagger was their hardest-hit ball of the inning until a 109-mph line-drive single from Danny Jansen won the last run. According to Statcast, George Springer’s double to lead from the inning and Daulton Varshos, driving in Belt, each had a 16% or less chance of hitting. It was only the fourth time in the Statcast era (since 2015) that a pitcher had allowed four doubles in an inning and neither registered an exit speed of 100 mph or more.

After the big first inning, Webb managed to give up 11 of the last 13 batters he faced but left Ross Stripling to start the sixth inning. Stripling, recurring for the first time since May 17 (low back strain), won the last three innings but conceded a run on three hits and had three strikeouts.

The first inning cost the Giants more than the game. Conforto was sent off for a pinch hitter early in the second period after chasing several balls down right field, including a foul by Matt Chapman that catapulted Conforto into foul territory and eventually into the waist-high wall while he was recorded the second of the inning.

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Job-rich, low-tax countries like the one in the Sun Belt attract many Americans as house prices rise, various recent reports show.

Online real estate marketplace Zillow and moving company U-Haul named Florida and Texas as hot moving destinations in separate reports, while United Van Lines listed Florida and South Carolina among the top states for immigration.

“The Sun Belt states are more affordable and generally have lower tax burdens and more jobs,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, the largest trade association in the industry with 1.5 million members.

Peter C. Earle, a free market economist at the American Institute for Economic Research in Massachusetts, said “a large part” of pandemic migration will continue to be “from states with the strictest pandemic policies towards more relaxed ones.”

“The economies of those states that have used more hands-off policies to tackle the spread of COVID are now growing faster than those that have been repeatedly locked down,” Earle said. “Plus, if a bad bug occurs, people generally want to know that they won’t be unemployed or have to shut down their business overnight, and states like Texas and Florida make that possibility unlikely.”

Zillow reported last week that the sun belt will dominate its list of the hottest real estate markets for the second straight year. Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida; San Antonio, Texas; and Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina will lead US markets as house prices rise 14% nationwide.

Additionally, Zillow predicted that New York City, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Chicago will see the coolest housing markets in 2022 due to fewer jobs and less favorable demographic trends.

The real estate company based its report on projections of home appreciation, housing permits, and housing offers.

Mr. Yun of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) predicts that house prices will rise “more moderately” this year, rising 5.7% instead of Zillow’s forecast of 14%.

Eight of the major metropolitan areas for which the NAR is forecasting higher price increases this year are in the Sun Belt states: Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; Daphne-Fairhope-Farley and Huntsville, Alabama; Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida; Pensacola Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida; San Antonio-New Braunfels, Texas; Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Tucson, Arizona.

Meanwhile, U-Haul reported in its annual growth index last week that Texas ousted Florida with the largest net gain in one-way trucks in 2021, while California and Illinois posted the largest net losses.

Californians were traveling to Texas so quickly that U-Haul “just ran out of inventory” to help them move last year, the company said.

And United Van Lines reported in its 45th annual National Movers Study that two Sun Belt states made the top 5 for immigration in 2021: South Carolina (63%) and Florida (62%) joined Vermont, South Dakota (69%) and West on Virginia (63%).

States like Illinois (67%), New York (63%), Connecticut (60%) and California (59%) were again at the top of the churn list.

“The pandemic has drawn many New York, New Jersey, and California buyers to paradise,” said Nicol Jenkins, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based real estate agent.

Mr. Earle of the American Institute for Economic Research said changes in federal tax law and the recent spike in inflation have made Americans more cost conscious than they have been in decades, and they are leaving “the expensive high-tax areas of the US” in the northeast coast and California for the cheaper sunbelt region. “

“When people move, they tell friends and family, some of whom will follow,” he said. “When companies move, they bring employees and families with them and motivate other companies to do so.”

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A wave of low pressure systems in the Pacific moved closer and closer to Northern California early Tuesday, bringing the risk of heavy rain and several feet of fresh snow to the Sierra well into the Christmas holiday weekend.

Showers in the San Francisco Bay Area were expected to begin in the afternoon hours on Tuesday, moving south from North Bay and lasting until Christmas Day.

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“We will see rain waves in the next few days, so rain now and then,” said KPIX 5 meteorologist Mary Lee. “Bring 1-3 inches through the holiday weekend.”

The National Weather Service said the jet stream howling across the Pacific is kicking the storm door wide.

“A low-pressure conveyor belt is moving into the area – this would mean a pretty wet end for 2021, but it’s a little too far away to care too much,” weather forecasters said. “That’ll be something to check in later this week.”

They predicted 2.3 inches of rain in San Francisco by December 25th.

“If verified, it will bring SF back to the top of the ten wettest water years to date by the end of the week,” the forecasters said.

The coastal mountains in North Bay could see 3-5 inches with up to 6 inches of rain over the higher peaks. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, areas that were already saturated with rain last week could fall another 3-6 inches.

“The good news is that the rain sums are spread over many days, which should mitigate the major effects,” tweeted the weather service. “But be prepared for minor floods, slippery roads and potential debris flows / mudslides.”

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In the Sierra, a winter weather warning comes into effect on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. and changes to a winter storm warning from Thursday morning to Sunday.

“Heavy snow expected (from Thursday),” warned the weather service in Reno. “Total snow accumulations from 2 to 4 feet up to 4 to 8 feet over 7,000 feet. Wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour, with the ridge gusts likely being over 100 miles per hour. “

For the thousands traveling from the Bay Area to Tahoe over the holiday weekend, it means it will be a slow journey.

“As soon as the snow starts tonight, traveling through the Sierra will become more and more difficult or almost impossible until the weekend,” warned the NWS Reno forecasters. “Be prepared for long delays and rapidly changing territory pass conditions.”

The mountain range, in which ski areas found it difficult to open this autumn, is already showing glittering peaks after the recent storms. Snowfall is important because the Sierra winter snowpack is usually a major source of California’s water.

“We recently had a big storm. We’ve just finished shoveling and all that, so let’s prepare for the next one, ”said Karla Brennan, owner of The Cork & More, a long-time deli, cheese and wine shop in South Lake Tahoe. “I think it will be a white Christmas.”

While the current wet trend is positive, it’s too early to know if it will last through January and February. Snow cover usually doesn’t peak until April and last spring there was minimal runoff as much of the water was taken up by the arid, arid landscape.

Forecasters noted that this week’s storms will also have the potential for significant low-altitude snow, including over Interstate 5 north of Redding, the northern region where last week’s storms crippled the vital freeway for nearly 24 hours.

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NEW YORK – Hours after learning his grandmother had died, Brandon Belt texted his wife and parents on Tuesday admitting he was struggling and unsure if he could play.

His father reminded him that his grandmother, Margaret Peterson, wanted to see him out there.

“I think that kind of got me locked in,” Belt said.

Belt with a heavy heart swung a heavy bat, hitting two of San Francisco’s four home runs before dedicating them and the rest of his season to the memory of his grandmother after the Giants’ 8-0 win over the Mets.

“I was stunned all day,” he said. “I was just glad I could get out of here and do this for her.”

Brandon Belt went 4 for 5 with two homers and dedicated the game on Tuesday and the rest of the season to his grandmother, who died Tuesday morning. Photo by Jim McIsaac / Getty Images

The 33-year-old Belt finished a 2-on-30 skid with a drive that landed on Citi Field’s center field apple in the first inning, homered again in the fourth and also had two singles. The second homer was his best 19th of the season.

“I couldn’t help but have the feeling that there was something powerful at play when he hit his first home run,” said Giants manager Gabe Kapler.

Belt’s grandmother died of COVID-19 on Tuesday morning, Belt said. Growing up in Texas with his mother’s mother, he said that she and his grandfather provided financial aid while Belt pursued a baseball career in high school by traveling to show tournaments.

“She was always proud to brag about me to her friends,” said Belt.

Kapler said he expected Belt to leave the team for the memorial service in the next few days and that he would have the club’s full support.

“He just looked locked up,” said Kapler. “And I think that’s amazing considering what he went through today.”

The major league leaders have won 20 of 27 games while trying to stop the Dodgers in NL West. San Francisco started on Tuesday with a 2½ game lead.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) – The San Francisco Giants delivered another unlikely win from behind by showing the tenacity that has enabled them to have the best record in baseball.

Brandon Belt hit his second homer of the night during a four-run breakout on Aug.

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After 2-1 with two outs in ninth place, the Giants combined it with a bizarre RBI triple and scored eight runs in the last three innings. San Francisco had to use nine different pitchers.

“That was the toughest performance of the year for our club,” said Giants manager Gabe Kapler.

That’s a strong statement considering the courage the NL West leaders have shown throughout the season. That latest win came just two nights after the Giants made up a 4-0 deficit in the ninth inning in a 5-4, 10-inning triumph in Arizona.

The Giants played their third consecutive extra inning game. They leveled the game with a two-out rally in ninth place and then bounced back after losing a three-round lead in 10th place.

LaMonte Wade brought the Giants on the 11th Belt followed with a double shot over the right field wall. Kris Bryant crowned the rally with an RBI double.

“That’s a really good lineup,” said Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff. “Of course a lot of these guys have multiple World Series rings. A moment is not too big for either of these guys. You saw everything. “

All four of the Giants’ 11th innings were run by Sal Romano (0-1) in his Brewers debut.

Belt also hit a solo shot in the fourth solo and has three homers in the last two nights. Bryant and Buster Posey both had three hits.

Jake McGee (4-2) landed 9-5 at the end of the 11th. McGee was not supposed to line up on Saturday but was called upon when the game reached the 11th.

“I didn’t have my brace down there or my cup or anything, so they had to do that in extra innings,” said McGee, who was running for the third night in a row.

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The Brewers were deprived of a 2-1 win when Tommy La Stella hit a drive in the ninth inning that fell in front of right fielder Avisaíl García on the warning trail. La Stella has been credited with a triple that Bryant scored from the start.

García backed away until he was in front of the wall and took a few steps to the right to find the fly, but never touched the ball when he reached for it.

“I think he got stuck on the wall a bit and then struggled to change direction,” said Brewers manager Craig Counsell. “I think he was preparing to catch against the wall and the ball just didn’t get there and he got a little tied up and his feet got tangled and he couldn’t recover from it.”

La Stella’s hit thwarted Brent Suter’s hopes of saving his first career at the age of 31.

“You have to give La Stella credit,” said Suter. “He just got a barrel on an up-and-in pitch. He got it up there and it moved and all. “

Milwaukee couldn’t reach out to All-Star Josh Hader, one of several brewers on the COVID-19 injured list.

Posey hit a two-run single through a drafted infield and Brandon Crawford drove home a prey fly run to help the Giants take a 5-2 lead over Miguel Sánchez in 10th place.

Luis Urías reduced the lead to 5-4 by starting the bottom of the 10th with a two-run homer to center Jarlin García in the middle. A failure later, Willy Adames also sent a García pitch over the midfield wall to tie him.

The Brewers led 2-1 into ninth as Woodruff pitched six strong innings and Tyrone Taylor broke his slump.

Woodruff struck eight, allowing six hits, a run, and a step.

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Taylor went 2 for 5 with a triple and kicked off in the fourth inning. Taylor had been 0 for 20 in his last six games before Saturday.

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SAN FRANCISCO – First baseman Brandon Belt resumed baseball activities with the San Francisco Giants in spring training after delving into what manager Gabe Kapler called a virus without giving any further details – although Kapler previously said it wasn’t COVID-19.

The 32-year-old belt had already been slowly incorporated after undergoing surgery in October to remove a bone spur from his right heel.

“He had a virus and was sick,” said Kapler. “I don’t know if there is much more, sorry.”

Belt did light baseball work Wednesday at Scottsdale Stadium before doing more extensive training on Thursday, Kapler said.

“Had a nice chat with Brandon on the field today. He threw, he feels better,” Kapler said on a Zoom call after San Francisco’s 3-1 win over the White Sox.

“We’ve got some work in the cage too. We’re still trying to get Brandon ready for opening day. There’s no big rush right now. We’re still pretty early in March. But today was promising and every day we’re going to add a bit of activity. When. If.” If you’ve been sick for a while, it will take a while to rebuild. “

Outfielder Jaylin Davis ran the bases Thursday after dealing with knee pain and should be playing soon, while outfielder Austin Slater cultivates what Kapler called “a mild aching hamstring”. He swings the bat.

“He went really well and we are especially confident that you will see him on the lineup for the next few days, maybe one more day to run the bases and then we can get started,” Kapler said. “Did field exercises today and looked great. His body moves well.”

Right-handed Reyes Moronta, who failed to serve during rehab after surgery on his pitching shoulder last season, and left-handed Jarlin Garcia are also closer to getting into the game.

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The 32-year-old belt had already been slowly incorporated after undergoing surgery in October to remove a bone spur from his right heel.

“He had a virus and was sick,” said Kapler. “I don’t know if there is much more, sorry.”

Belt did light baseball work Wednesday at Scottsdale Stadium before doing more extensive training on Thursday, Kapler said.

“Had a nice chat with Brandon on the field today. He threw, he feels better,” Kapler said on a Zoom call after San Francisco’s 3-1 win over the White Sox.

“We’ve got some work in the cage too. We’re still trying to get Brandon ready for opening day. There’s no big rush right now. We’re still pretty early in March. But today was promising and every day we’re going to add a bit of activity. When. If.” If you’ve been sick for a while, it will take a while to rebuild. “

Outfielder Jaylin Davis ran the bases Thursday after dealing with knee pain and should be playing soon, while outfielder Austin Slater cultivates what Kapler called “a mild aching hamstring”. He swings the bat.

“He went really well and we are especially confident that you will see him on the lineup for the next few days, maybe one more day to run the bases and then we can get started,” Kapler said. “Did field exercises today and looked great. His body moves well.”

Right-handed Reyes Moronta, who failed to serve during rehab after surgery on his pitching shoulder last season, and left-handed Jarlin Garcia are also closer to getting into the game.

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