People in Tulare County bracing for more wet weather  

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- People are gearing up for much bedewed upwind successful Tulare County. In Woodlake connected Thursday, immoderate homeowners utilized sandbags to assistance forestall flood damage. But they're disquieted the adjacent circular of rainfall could beryllium adjacent worse.

At a location connected the country of Cypress Street and Lauren Lane successful Woodlake, radical started placing sandbags retired front.

Just down the thoroughfare connected Pine Street, Selso Garcia began cleaning retired his store aft floodwaters rushed in.

A video helium shared with Action News shows the h2o besides covering his beforehand yard.

The video besides shows however overmuch of the thoroughfare was flooding connected Thursday afternoon.

"It was scary, you know? Because it was raining hard today," said Garcia.

Garcia has lived astatine his location for 5 years.

This isn't the archetypal clip he's dealt with atrocious flooding.

Another video helium shared showed the harm past year's wintertime storms near behind. A bin tin adjacent beryllium seen floating successful the country of his store aft being submerged successful rain.

The h2o besides reached the beforehand steps of his home.

"The occupation is each my instrumentality and machine, laundry and everything you know." said Garcia, "The past time, (water) damaged the full thing."

That's wherefore erstwhile Garcia saw the rainfall travel down hard, helium acted fast, putting sandbags retired front.

He said astir 2 inches of h2o came wrong this time. Garcia was pumping retired immoderate of the h2o that flooded his garage. But helium plans to support the sandbags retired for the adjacent mates of days.

Across the thoroughfare from Garcia, Darlene Valenzula and her household captured cellphone video of the dense rain. In it, a UPS motortruck was trying to navigate the floodwaters.

"As soon arsenic we saw the h2o starting, we were like, let's determination the cars retired of the roadworthy due to the fact that we cognize it's going to get high," said Valenzuela.

But what worries Valenzula is the adjacent tempest system.

"We're going to beryllium watching it beauteous close," said Valenzuela, "making definite that each the h2o stays successful the roadworthy oregon goes down the drain astatine slightest arsenic champion we can."

She told Action News her household stays prepared by having sandbags astatine the backmost of their location and making definite they person plentifulness of supplies successful lawsuit of an emergency.

Like Garcia, Valenzula remembers the truly atrocious flooding from past year. She said immoderate of their trash bins were swept up successful the flooding, and their location suffered a small h2o damage.

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