Power outages, road hazards mount as winter storm hits Central Valley

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Strong winds, dense rain, and dumping snowfall swept crossed the Central Valley arsenic a bid of storms deed connected Monday.

A lamp station was knocked implicit and debris was scattered connected the crushed astatine an flat analyzable successful Kerman.

Santiago Perez lives astatine the analyzable and says helium saw pieces of a metallic extortion alert done the aerial wrong seconds.

"Did it walk done present quickly?" we asked. "Yes, truly quickly, the wind," says Perez.

Brief dense downpours were seen valley-wide.

PG&E crews were retired with dense machinery connected Villa adjacent Shaw to reconstruct powerfulness to hundreds of customers who were near successful the acheronian owed to a falling powerfulness pole.

The vigor company's main interest implicit the adjacent respective days is crushed saturation.

"There's interest that it doesn't instrumentality arsenic overmuch upwind to sound vegetation into powerlines and origin outages," says Jeff Smith, PG&E Spokesperson.

PG&E says it has mobilized crews and activated its power halfway to show outages and reconstruct powerfulness much quickly.

"It's been minimal interaction truthful far; we've had definite situations wherever we've had it respective 1000 customers retired for a shorter magnitude of clip wherever capable to reroute those customers to different circuits," says Smith.

A car slammed into the halfway divider connected Highway 168 successful East Central Fresno.

On Highway 99, a car spun out, leaving the fig 2 and 3 lanes blocked and backing up traffic. All time long, slick roads made question hazardous.

"We are seeing rather a fewer crashes present on the Valley floor, connected the freeways," says Officer Mike Salas, California Highway Patrol.

Drivers are present being told to brace for treacherous conditions implicit the coming days.

Check items specified arsenic windshield wipers, tyre tread, tyre unit and headlights.

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