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The 44-year-old former criminal prosecutor has represented a moderately well-off slice of the East Bay suburbs — Fremont, Livermore, Pleasanton among them — for the last dozen years.

Farther north, San José, Concord and Livermore could get 1.5 to 2 inches of rain; San Francisco, Napa, Monterey and Santa Rosa, 2 to 3 inches; and Big Sur, 4 to 6 inches.

“It takes time. You can’t just run with the first probable answer,” said Stewart Gary, a public safety consultant with Citygate Associates and former fire chief of the Livermore–Pleasanton Fire Department.

Quick bouts of rain temporarily flooded some roadways and underpasses in the Bay Area, submerging cars in one low-lying street in Livermore.

According to Stuff, Romero was originally from Venezuela and had worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for several years.