Power outages and hail impact some Fresno neighborhoods and businesses

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Thunder, rain, hail, and adjacent lightning deed Central California connected Friday afternoon.

Daniel Cruz was heading into enactment erstwhile helium got caught up successful the chaotic weather.

"Just got connected the highway, 5 minutes later, thing but dense rain, hail, dense hail," said Cruz. "Then 10 minutes aboriginal thing but sunshine."

That dense hail weighed down connected nets extracurricular of Full Circle Brewing.

The brewery enactment up the nets conscionable 2 days ago.

When workers saw that the hail pulled down the nets, they rapidly sprang into enactment to get it fixed.

"We had 1 implicit here, what they telephone a grommet, clasp connected a country and a 4th inch cablegram that holds it conscionable drawback and it ripped the grommet close retired of it," said Kelly Rogers with Full Circle Brewing.

"So, we had to regenerate that and regenerate the cable."

Rogers said this outpouring tempest is not thing helium expected.

"We're successful the April right," said Rogers, "a fewer showers the lukewarm benignant of outpouring showers that we get present but thing similar crystal retired of the sky."

In Southwest Fresno, graupel covered the grounds astatine a daycare halfway and immoderate neighborhoods.

At the intersection of MLK Boulevard and Belgravia Ave, cars drove done a h2o covered street.

Not excessively acold away, Fresno City College's West Campus Center successful dealt with immoderate energy outages. Jennifer Herzog, a counselor, heard the thunder roar portion she was working.

Moments later, the powerfulness went out.

"We bash person exigency lights present and the Wi-Fi came close backmost on," said Herzog. "All of america had our laptops, truthful we were capable to conscionable link close distant and get close backmost to our students."

In Downtown Fresno, radical were jumping implicit large puddles trying not to get wet. Some adjacent walking astir it.

Fresno City Public Works crews were keeping an oculus retired for immoderate occupation spots that this tempest brought.

The section adds, it's ever readying for this benignant of weather.

Brian Russell, the Assistant Public Works Director, said a fistful of crews were retired responding to immoderate problems during the storm.

"It was abbreviated lived and it moved done reasonably quickly," said Russell.

"So acold the flooding has been precise manageable. Really haven't had galore issues. It's precocious successful the play and our tempest strategy has been tested and flushed."

Russell adds crews volition beryllium checking retired its pump stations making definite it's up and moving correctly.

After each the bedewed upwind passes, Public Works said it's going to absorption connected filling up the potholes.

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