leslie brinkley begins our live team coverage and she is in pacifica. leslie? >> that's right. this is the calm after the storm. no flooding in pacifica. just a day and a whole night of california raining and the problems it caused. >> sheets of rain and a blast of wind took down power lines in this pacifica neighborhood. along the san mateo coast it was stormy skies and a stormy sea. >> checking out the waves. >> waves pounded the pier where these die hards calmly fished despite 50 mile an hour gusts. >> we had like almost like 20-foot waves over here. the pier is 35 feet high. >> the water was splashing over the side of the pier. >> the storm triggered the cancellation of at sfo. many were short hall routes in california from palm springs to san luis obispo and monterey. gary small wood's flight was on time, but he had to kill eight hours at the airport waiting for a friend. >> it was an air canada flight out of toronto and it got canceled and was rerouted through denver so still waiting. >> penny's flight was 45 minutes late out of washington, d.c. because of the storm in sa