Fresno County OES and residents prepare for second atmospheric river

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno County Office of Emergency Services (OES) is stressing the value of idiosyncratic preparedness earlier the adjacent tempest arrives.

The archetypal atmospheric stream had already swept done Lee Murrietta's location successful Northwest Fresno.

"My gait wholly flooded, my driveway flooded," Murrietta said.

Now, Murrietta is taking vantage of the county's sandbags for immoderate assistance up of the adjacent storm.

"Hopefully preventing resting h2o past the instauration up, you know, past my house," Murrietta said. "If it goes beyond the foundation, I'm successful trouble."

Another Northwest Fresno homeowner, Earl Remily, says this is the archetypal clip he's needed to drawback immoderate sandbags.

"It flooded past year. So, we've been successful that location for 30 years. It's ne'er done that, truthful I conjecture we're getting immoderate antithetic amounts of rain. Well, I cognize we are. I conscionable don't privation it to happen," Remily explained.

While the sandbags are a large resource, Fresno County OES wants radical to cognize determination are different ways to hole for the storm.

"Sometimes, with ample storms, we whitethorn suffer power. So, until the powerfulness comes on, you privation to marque definite that you person immoderate benignant of nutrient supplies and water," Fresno OES Emergency Manager Terri Mejorado said. "If you're utilizing flashlights and lanterns, that the batteries are caller oregon you person further batteries."

Fresno County OES has been successful regular meetings with the National Weather Service to marque definite the section has the close magnitude of resources for the upcoming storm.

"We bash person idiosyncratic connected telephone each play who volition beryllium participating successful these calls and monitoring the weather, truthful if thing were to change, we could activate our exigency operations center," Mejorado said.

While the bureau is not anticipating an emergency, it is prepared and wants residents to beryllium arsenic well.

Some different tips from Fresno County OES: marque definite your gutters are cleaned out, cheque connected your trees to spot if they're snug oregon if roots are exposed, hole them up of the storm, and thrust safely.

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