Fresno Co. officials urge preparedness ahead of blizzard warning for Sierra Nevada

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It was the calm earlier the tempest successful Shaver Lake Wednesday with lone patches of leftover snowfall connected the crushed from the past wintertime storm.

"We tin astir apt expect astir an inch of rainfall successful the Fresno/Clovis country betwixt Thursday and Saturday," said Terri Mejorado, Emergency Manager with the Fresno Co. Office of Emergency Services.

And successful the mountains travel Thursday night, the calmness is expected to alteration arsenic a blizzard informing is successful effect for parts of the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite nationalist Park to Cedar Grove.

Erik and Karol Anderson ain a compartment successful Shaver Lake and already dealing with the effects of the upcoming storm.

"We conscionable had a impermanent that wanted to cancel due to the fact that of the blizzard coming successful -- the upwind coming in," said Erik Anderson.

With 36 to 48 inches of snowfall expected present successful Shaver Lake - PG&E says entree is going to beryllium the main interest if determination are immoderate powerfulness outages successful this area.

"Because of these entree issues, customers tin acquisition outages for 2, 3, and 4 days astatine a time," said Jeff Smith, PG&E Spokesperson. "But we are making definite that for immoderate of these hard to scope locations, we bash person the indispensable snowfall instrumentality successful bid to bash immoderate we tin successful these distant areas to get to them arsenic safely and rapidly arsenic possible."

Fresno region Fire Chief Dustin Hail says the champion happening you tin bash is hole and beryllium cautious arsenic snowfall falls connected your home.

"Try to propulsion a small spot of that snowfall disconnected the roof, that added value adjacent though it doesn't look similar its precise overmuch -- but that adds a tremendous magnitude of value to extortion of immoderate structure," said CAL FIRE / Fresno County Fire Chief Dustin Hail.

That preparedness portion the prima is inactive shining is what the Anderson's were taking vantage of Wednesday.

"We're conscionable making definite everyone's unafraid and we got our snowfall shovels out, thing we tin bash truly to marque definite that we're ready," said Erik Anderson.

Chief Hail says they are besides moving with different instrumentality enforcement agencies to person other instrumentality implicit the weekend.

Nearly 1 twelvemonth agone caller pulverization covered the Sierra and Fresno County officials accidental they are utilizing those experiences today.

"So that was 1 of the large lessons that we learned past year, is present connected the 4 -ane going up to Shaver Lake, the h2o comes down the elevation successful antithetic places wherever possibly it didn't travel down determination before," said Mejorado.

Mejorado says they are besides moving with neighboring counties to marque definite the full portion is prepared.

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