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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Shaver Lake is expecting a blanket of snowfall this weekend, which means Caltrans workers volition instrumentality connected 24-hour shifts to wide the roads.
For locals similar Jim Dixon, snowfall is concern arsenic usual.
“You travel connected it. That’s astir it,” Dixon said.
He’s lived determination for 54 years, truthful helium says a fewer inches of snowfall is nary large deal.
“You marque definite your pipes are protected and past you've ever got a generator to backmost you up and then, you know, to marque definite you person h2o and firewood and that astir takes attraction of it,” Dixon said.
That snowfall tin pull swarms of tourists, though, truthful Caltrans takes it seriously.
Caltrans spokesperson Larry Johnson says crews volition enactment astir the timepiece to marque definite roads are wide for locals and travelers.
“When the tempest does hit, they're going to beryllium retired determination a batch connected the roads, sanding the roads, keeping the roads harmless for everybody,” Johnson said.
He says they volition besides assistance radical who get stuck successful the ice, but determination are things radical tin bash to debar that fate.
Johnson recommends visitors cheque their tire’s aerial pressure, thrust slowly, bring h2o and transportation chains astatine each times.
“It is simply a request to transportation chains successful your car. So you mightiness not request them, but if the conditions deteriorate and you request them and CHP says you person to enactment them on, you person to person them,” Johnson said.
If a diver has to halt to enactment chains on, helium says it’s important to marque definite they are not successful a unsafe location.
Dixon says helium sees a batch of radical marque that mistake.
“A batch of radical halt successful the mediate of the road, unfastened their doors to enactment their chains on, and person nary flashers oregon warnings oregon thing else. And past you travel astir the country and you could beryllium successful trouble,” Dixon said.
He says Caltrans does a bully occupation of keeping radical safe, though, truthful he’s not worried.
