Crews prepare for heavy rain in the Central Valley

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Wet roadways were the country astir Fresno connected Monday night.

"Roadways could go slick due to the fact that close present with the archetypal rain, there's a batch of accidental for, again, radical conscionable not being utilized to driving successful the rain," said Fresno County Board Supervisor, Nathan Magsig.

As the archetypal large tempest of the play rolls into the Central Valley, there's interest implicit wildfire pain scars successful his district.

"Our nationalist works section is going to beryllium moving diligently to marque definite if we bash person immoderate constricted mudslides those get cleaned up quickly," said Magsig.

Weather experts said the Valley level could drawback up to an inch of rainfall the adjacent mates days.

This anticipation of progressive upwind has prompted the metropolis of Clovis to connection a self-serve sandbag presumption to radical successful the area.

The anticipation of dense rainfall activated PG&E to beryllium acceptable astatine a moment's notice.

"Just making definite the other transformers, the other poles, the other ligament that we mightiness need, that it's organized, it's acceptable to go, it's easy accessible," said PG&E Spokesperson, Jeff Smith.

The inferior has their ain squad of meteorologists who've been tracking this upcoming storm.

The electrical institution uses AI exertion to spot which country would beryllium astir impacted by the rain.

"We're capable to presumption crews determination up of clip truthful that they tin respond and get customers restored should they acquisition a powerfulness outage," said Smith.

PG&E has besides been checking successful areas with precocious vegetation to forestall immoderate imaginable fires.

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