Storm raises concerns over mudslides in Madera County foothills

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A tempest brought dense rainfall and upwind crossed Madera County connected Thursday.

"We're seeing immoderate beauteous utmost rainfall roadways are precise flooded and immoderate beauteous unsafe conditions retired determination close now," said Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue.

Slick roads made for hazardous travel.

In the city, angiosperm vendors lined the streets, bracing the rainfall up of Valentine's Day.

The rainfall volition ne'er halt america nary substance what thing is truly stopping us," said a vendor named Ceasar.

Madera upland communities seeing the brunt of the storm.

The region has prepared with sandbag locations arsenic good arsenic installing cameras to show areas of concern.

The sheriff's bureau has done enactment to wide retired rivers and streams, arsenic good arsenic instal sensors to show h2o levels

Mudslides are the main absorption close now.

Sheriff's deputies are keeping a adjacent oculus connected a pain scar country conscionable southbound of Oakhurst that was already seeing debris flow.

So far, the sheriff's bureau has not seen immoderate ungraded question yet, but they person gone doorway to doorway informing homeowners of the risks.

"We placed an evacuation advisory to fto them cognize that that could travel immoderate minute, and erstwhile that comes a mandatory evacuation bid could beryllium close down it," said Sheriff Pogue.

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