Flooding impacting roadways across Tulare County

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- In westbound Goshen, the roadway was flooded connected Avenue 308 and Road 52 connected Tuesday morning.

Large puddles were astatine slightest respective inches deep.

Neighbors accidental h2o similar this is thing new; they've been dealing with flooding connected this roadworthy for years.

Now, they person a connection for drivers who question done this area.

"There's definite areas that get truthful flooded it's dangerous. Especially the cars and trucks that alert by present astatine similar 100 miles an hour," says 1 nonmigratory named Sally arsenic a operator sped past the flooded road.

Sally, who didn't privation to beryllium connected camera, has been surviving connected Avenue 308 successful West Goshen since 2008.

She says it has ever flooded during rainy days.

This caller circular of showers-was nary exception, the h2o adjacent covered immoderate driveways.

"You can't adjacent get successful and retired of their homes," says Sally, "Sometimes their kids don't adjacent travel retired to spell to schoolhouse due to the fact that it's truthful flooded."

Denise England with the Tulare County Roads section says portion of the occupation is,

"Most of our roads bash not person curbs, gutters, and sidewalks associated with them arsenic cities do. It's mostly, you know, a agrarian roadworthy with a ungraded shoulder, and truthful the drainage benignant of handles itself implicit a play of time."

The region was capable to usage authorities funds from past year's floods to wide up transmission ways-

but arsenic agelong arsenic floodwaters are inactive present, they impulse radical to thrust safely.

"It doesn't instrumentality overmuch h2o to origin your conveyance to hydroplane oregon to origin your conveyance to beryllium swept distant if the h2o is moving crossed the road, and h2o is precise powerful," explains Denise.

Neighbors successful this country besides inquire drivers not to speed, particularly with children around.

"So dilatory down due to the fact that I person grandkids," Sally pleads, "There've been a fewer accidents present wherever radical don't adjacent halt oregon dilatory down."

At this point, Tulare County officials accidental determination are nary roadworthy closures successful place- but that tin alteration astatine immoderate moment.

They inquire anyone who notices a flooded roadway to telephone and guarantee the due signs are placed successful the area.

They besides notation if you request sandbags, region occurrence stations should person them.

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