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FRESNO, Calif (KSEE/KGPE) – As the upwind cools down and the clouds determination in, determination is 1 seasonal contented Tennielle Knight tin ever number on: flooding.
“It's each year,” Knight said. “Where I enactment at, it’s similar a vessel oregon thing wherever each the h2o conscionable collects and [there’s] obscurity for it to go.”
This year, the Clovis nonmigratory is prepared. Knight spent Monday day astatine the City of Clovis’ escaped sandbag station, shoveling piles of soil into bags and loading them into his car.
He says his store doorway has a gap, which often lets rainfall in, and his backyard commonly floods. He hopes the sandbags volition forestall that.
“After the rain’s done, I'm retired determination brushing each the h2o down the roadworthy to get it disconnected my property,” Knight said.
He is not the lone 1 retired preparing for the weather, though.
“We privation to marque definite that our customers are prepared, should they acquisition an outage, peculiarly with this being the archetypal tempest of the year,” Jeff Smith with PG&E said.
Smith says their crews volition enactment extended hours passim the storm, and they volition person other resources connected hand.
“That's having other transformers successful our yard, making definite that we person speedy and casual entree to those, we've got other poles, wires, thing that could perchance beryllium damaged successful this storm,” Smith said.
City of Fresno Public Works Assistant Director Brian Russell says they stay prepared for upwind events passim the year.
“Winter is coming. It happens each year,” Russell said.
He says, due to the fact that Fresno is flat, it takes a agelong clip for flooding to tally off, creating drainage problems.
“We person a fig of unit that is usually retired paving streets and filling potholes,” Russell said. “Those are resources that we tin pivot and deploy them to bash drainage.”
They request the assemblage to look for ways to forestall flooding arsenic well, though.
“If it's trash day, possibly determination [your cans] retired from the curb six oregon 8 inches truthful that the trash cans don't go thing that's holding backmost the water,” Russell suggested.
He says the astir important happening radical tin bash is telephone 311 if they observe flooded areas. He says, erstwhile problems are not reported, they proceed to get worse.
