By Linda Taaffe and Scott Wong

Los Altos and Los Altos Hills took another beating this week from the second storm to ravage the Bay Area this season. The estimated 50 mph winds and nearly 2-inches of rainfall over the weekend disrupted mail service, caused mudslides, downed trees, shredded awnings, flooded roads and cut power lines to 829,371 area residents.

PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith said 111 Los Altos and Los Altos Hills homes were still without power Monday morning. Residents began reporting outages Friday night.

The U.S. Postal Department in Los Altos was unable to deliver half of its regular mail volume Monday due to a power outage at 12:30 a.m. at the North Peninsula Delivery Center in Daly City, which electronically sorts and routes mail to area post offices.

Postmaster Masayuki Sato said postal workers at the center were manually sorting mail. Los Altos expected to receive the mail later in the day, he said. Sato anticipated that delivery of those items would be delayed by one day.

Los Altos Public Works Superintendent Brian McCarthy said storm damage would take city crews about two weeks to clean up. The city received 120 calls from Friday through Monday morning from residents reporting flooding and downed trees. An acacia tree on Orange Avenue fell and crushed a Suburban, he said.

In Los Altos Hills, the public works department reported two mudslides, one on Viscano Court and the other on Page Mill Road; six fallen trees; and a live wire on Moody Road. There were no reports of property damage.

Students at Bullis-Purissima and Santa Rita schools went home early Monday due to campus black outs, a school official confirmed.

The National Weather Service predicted more storms continuing through Sunday with chances showers today and temperatures dropping to the mid-30s Thursday.

The average rainfall for this time of year along the Peninsula is 1.58 inches.