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As 2 tempest systems marque their mode to Central California, officials accidental crews are prepared and connected standby for the inevitable.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 2:21AM
From levee repairs to sandbag stations, officials successful Merced County accidental they are acceptable for the dependable rainfall that's coming.
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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- From levee repairs to sandbag stations, officials successful Merced County accidental they are acceptable for the dependable rainfall that's coming.
It's the calm earlier the storm, but preparations person been underway for weeks.
"We've been focused connected Miles Creek and Bear Creek. Those are areas that person had anterior tempest damage," said Mike North with Merced County.
Thousands of sandbags person been placed connected levees, with crews taking other measures to prep areas that were delicate to past year's rain.
"Putting integrative really successful those canals to marque definite we tin support h2o moving retired of our country wherever it needs to go," explained North.
Fire officials comparison this play to past January erstwhile they had to state a national exigency for Merced County.
"That was connected the process extremity of a drawstring of atmospheric rivers coming through, truthful capableness upstream was constricted astatine best," said Merced Fire Chief Derek Parker.
As 2 tempest systems marque their mode to Central California, officials accidental crews are prepared and connected standby for the inevitable.
"If it is needed wherever we request to spell connected a non-traditional occurrence role, successful an all-risk role, we tin spell bash that," said Parker.
"We were prepared past twelvemonth arsenic well, but the magnitude of rainfall that we received, it's conscionable excessively overmuch for immoderate of these waterways to handle, truthful we learned a batch from past year, adjacent much prepared this year," added North.
Action News was told starting Wednesday morning, crews volition beryllium bringing a ample excavator to wide brushwood to further assistance with h2o flow.
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