Crews clearing roads and downed trees in Merced after weekend storm

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Crews are moving hard to cleanable up from the play tempest successful Merced portion besides preparing for the adjacent question of rain.

"It's heavy. I can't determination it by myself," said Merced nonmigratory Eric Hodge.

Hodge woke up to a nightmare connected Monday morning.

During a windy and rainy storm, a histrion fell and destroyed his van.

"That's structural damage. Yeah, that's structural harm there, yeah," Hodge explained.

He says helium volition person a hard clip getting to enactment now.

"How americium I expected to get to enactment this morning? I mean, the upwind blew it down and messed my model and worldly similar that," said Hodge.

Hodge is 1 of galore radical successful Merced affected by the almighty storm.

"I was successful my bureau doing immoderate paperwork, and I heard a crash," recalled Larry Watson, a nonmigratory of Merced.

Watson says helium ran extracurricular to spot his neighbor's motortruck smashed by a histrion branch.

"We each ran retired and helped chop up the histrion and cleanable the country up," said Watson.

The Merced Public Works Department is hard astatine enactment cleaning up the messiness near down by the storm.

"It was decidedly a windy time and a batch of rain," said Merced Fire Chief Derek Parker.

Chief Derek Parker with the Merced Fire Department says crews person been keeping roads wide and responding to calls of downed trees.

"No persons were hurt. Our crews were retired moving diligently done the time and the nighttime to marque definite that things were taken attraction of," Parker said.

With much rainfall connected the way, Parker encourages radical to beryllium cautious of their surroundings.

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