How Fresno and Clovis are preparing for this weekend's rain 

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Rain is headed to the the Central Valley and metropolis officials are taking each precautions to forestall thoroughfare flooding.

Fresno and Clovis person been preparing for weeks, cleaning the streets and tempest drains for erstwhile the bedewed upwind hits the valley.

"We person to beryllium up of the tempest and we request to deliberation proactively and erstwhile the tempest hits, there's nary clip to get caught up," said Brian Russell, Fresno's Assistant Director of Public Works.

Both cities are cleaning the streets and sidewalks of leaves and branches truthful that erstwhile the rainfall comes, they bash not lavation into the tempest drains.

"Our thoroughfare sweeping effort, truly is astir flooding, it's astir h2o prime and flooding," Russell shared.

Street sweeper machines and leafage blowers are used. In Fresno, conifer trees origin much enactment for the nationalist works section and the crews request to manually cod the fallen needles due to the fact that they tin ignite the sweeper machine.

"We really support a database of what we telephone our occupation drain inlets that are much apt to plug up, truthful we patrol those, that's our archetypal country to patrol and past we're besides relying connected residents to telephone successful occupation areas," added Rob Rush, Utilities Manager for the City of Clovis. 

Residents tin telephone 311 to study concerns astir flooding, downed histrion limbs, oregon adjacent potholes.

"One of the archetypal things we're doing arsenic soon arsenic the tempest is implicit and the rains passed, we person a blitz of pothole crews retired filling these potholes," Russell said. 

The City of Clovis provides 10 escaped sandbags for residents to make a obstruction adjacent doorways oregon occupation areas. They are disposable for prime up astatine the Clovis Public Utilities Department disconnected Sunnyside Avenue. 

"We retrofitted this trailer this year, the thought of this trailer is to let much radical to capable sandbags astatine 1 clip and to summation the easiness and convenience of filling them and truthful we'll beryllium actively monitoring this, assisting residents arsenic needed," Rush said.

Residents bash not request to instrumentality the sandbags; they are bully to usage for the remainder of the season.

It is recommended to prime them up sooner alternatively than aboriginal to debar agelong lines.