Mariposa County preparing for incoming rainstorm

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Wind, rain, and adjacent imaginable thunderstorms are expected passim Mariposa County arsenic the latest wintertime tempest rolls in.

"Right now, our nationalist works teams are retired clearing culverts, clearing tempest drains, truthful that we tin guarantee the due travel of h2o and marque definite that nary debris gets caught up successful these tempest drains," said Mariposa County Public Information Officer Jeanne Haegele.

Crews astatine office Wednesday mounted plows to brace for downed trees and imaginable rocks and boulders.

For radical who unrecorded successful the golden unreserved epoch municipality similar Jacob Hawley, the expected tempest is thing new.

"A batch of america present successful the mountains hole by getting our generators acceptable to go, conscionable successful lawsuit determination is simply a powerfulness outage," said resident, Jacob Hawley.

Others could drawback bags and shovels to banal up connected soil astatine the nearest escaped region determination successful lawsuit of imaginable flooding.

Hawley says the precipitation is overmuch needed passim the county.

"We request it up present arsenic well, we privation to marque definite that things don't conscionable get dried retired truthful quickly. Then we spell to those debased humidity levels, that's erstwhile you spot occurrence that comes into an country which is beauteous consistent," said Hawley.

Last July, the French occurrence destroyed 4 homes and 7 outbuildings.

Skyview 30 video shows conscionable however adjacent the flames came to Mariposa and present that aforesaid country is keeping teams connected edge.

"Right present we are looking astatine mean hazard connected Thursday erstwhile the rainfall is the heaviest for the French occurrence pain scar area. So we person crews connected standby, instrumentality connected standby, acceptable if determination are immoderate impacts from that rain," said Haegle.

And arsenic they get roadway signs ready, officials accidental to enactment successful the cognize to support Mariposa strong.

"For residents, the astir important happening is being vigilant and (being) definite that you are alert of the conditions that are going connected with the weather," said Haegele.

One mode to enactment up to day is by signing up for the county's exigency alerts connected their website.

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