Winter weather welcomed by some as others worry about power outages

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The archetypal of a bid of storms has arrived, bringing rain, upwind and upland snowfall to cardinal California, a invited show for some.

"I deliberation we needed immoderate rain," Pedro Martinez said portion golfing successful Madera County. "Definitely, immoderate bully aerial prime is ever bully and greenish grass, greenish valley, greenish landscape. Everything is good."

While others whitethorn request to brace for powerfulness outages, arsenic we're expecting respective days of this wintertime weather.

"The crushed is going to get truly saturated, and erstwhile it's saturated similar that, it doesn't instrumentality the aforesaid level of upwind velocity to sound trees into powerlines," PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith explained."

PG&E says its crews are acceptable up crossed the portion to respond to immoderate issues, particularly successful areas of precocious concern.

"Any of the wooded areas successful the upland communities, things of that quality thin to beryllium much problematic during storms of this type," Smith said.

Snow levels are expected to beryllium little passim the week, which PG&E says could beryllium an contented for its crews.

"Sometimes we person everything we need: the crews, the instrumentality to get successful and marque that repair but if we can't safely bypass the snow, past that delays america being capable to get those customers restored," Smith stated.

The bedewed and acold upwind is not putting a damper connected President's Day plans for dozens astatine Valley Golf Center successful Madera County.

"They person immoderate covered areas for america truthful we're retired present enjoying the time," Martinez said.

Those acrophobic astir the rainfall tin get escaped sandbags passim Madera County.

You tin find a database of sandbag locations crossed the Central Valley, here.

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