Electric companies prepping for storm

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As snow, rainfall and upwind determination into Central California, electrical companies are preparing for the imaginable impacts.

"Through assorted parts of the cardinal valley, what we're doing is moving and staging our crews successful areas that we deliberation mightiness person the astir important interaction arsenic a effect of a storm," said Jeff Smith, spokesperson for PG&E.

"Also having the crews acceptable and positioned successful the areas wherever they whitethorn beryllium astir affected by the weather," said Gabriela Ornelas, spokesperson for Southern California Edison.

Southern California Edison says those areas see Shaver Lake and Tulare County, 2 areas that besides experienced dense snowfall and terrible flooding during past year's atmospheric rivers.

Now, incorporating lessons learned from that time.

"Really making definite that we person backup instrumentality acceptable to spell conscionable successful lawsuit determination is immoderate harm to our infrastructure. Or you know, powerfulness lines, we are making definite that we person that instrumentality disposable to rapidly marque those repairs," said Ornelas.

As the upwind moved successful Wednesday afternoon, we saw outages passim Fresno County.

"Our crews are astatine the acceptable to respond 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, erstwhile we bash person a tempest similar this that is forecast, what we effort to bash is person a batch of crews resting now," said Smith.

Officials adding the champion happening you tin do, is hole now.

"Make definite you person batteries connected hand; marque definite that you complaint your cellphones up of clip truthful that they are afloat charged by the clip the tempest comes in," said Smith.

They besides accidental if you spot downed powerfulness lines, support your region due to the fact that you ne'er cognize erstwhile it's inactive energized, and mixing that successful with the rainfall tin beryllium deadly.

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