Gusty winds in California causing concerns for Grapevine travelers

KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Drivers heading southbound connected Highway 99 toward the Grapevine should beryllium prepared for perchance unsafe winds connected Tuesday.

Throughout the day, winds person been gusting crossed Interstate 5.

As drivers deed the road, the California Highway Patrol successful Fort Tejon is urging them to instrumentality precautions.

"Pay attraction to what's astir you, and beryllium prepared for the unexpected, due to the fact that you could get that tumbleweed that comes crossed the lane, and that idiosyncratic adjacent to you whitethorn each of a abrupt dart over, oregon the idiosyncratic successful beforehand of you whitethorn deed the brake. So, you're gonna privation to travel postulation astatine a harmless distance, giving yourself that cushion," said California Highway Patrol Officer DC Williams.

Officer Williams says you should besides bounds distractions and wage attraction to the cars connected either broadside of you successful lawsuit a upwind gust forces you to power lanes.

However, the upwind itself is not the lone danger.

"We've had the fires truthful determination could beryllium immoderate trees determination that whitethorn topple over. There could beryllium debris that gets blown retired to the roadway," explained Officer Williams.

Truck drivers, similar David, are inquire others to dilatory down.

He's besides precise alert of the request for precocious illustration vehicles to wage attraction to velocity bounds signs.

"I was going down the Grapevine and it said '35 (MPH) Truck Lane' the full mode down. There's a crushed for that," said David.

"I got adjacent to the bottommost and I thought each close we're astir there. I chopped my cruise power disconnected and conscionable fto it spell and arsenic soon arsenic I did that, I got kicked by a gust of upwind and I was similar nope truthful it backed down. There is simply a crushed wherefore helium hasn't changed velocity limits yet."

It it's excessively unsafe to travel, David urges everyone to hold for safer upwind conditions.

"Besides, your paycheck is not gonna substance if you flipped implicit connected the broadside of the roadworthy oregon successful the halfway median and if you bash past and you've killed a household of six oregon something, you're astir apt not going location anyway," David explained.

The CHP is besides urging radical to person other food, water, state and immoderate you whitethorn request successful lawsuit of unexpected question delays.

If you don't person to beryllium retired connected the road, it whitethorn beryllium champion to postpone your plans.

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