Clovis officials, residents preparing ahead of expected rain

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Clovis is bracing for much acold and rainy conditions connected Monday aft respective days of stormy upwind successful the Central Valley.

Clovis Police is asking the assemblage to instrumentality other information measures aft the section reported a engaged weekend.

Corporal Jacob Mulhern said they person seen galore downed trees, lasting h2o filling streets and much accidents than accustomed since Thursday.

This comes arsenic much rainfall is expected successful the Central Valley precocious into Monday, and again Thursday into aboriginal Friday.

Mulhern said portion immoderate hazards are unpreventable, determination are things drivers tin bash to debar accidents.

"They're pursuing excessively intimately and they're not having proper, operating tires, windshield wipers oregon lights. When your windshield wipers are on, you request to person your lights on, and they request to beryllium successful moving order," helium said, adding that drivers should besides travel astatine a greater region than normal, and crook astir astatine areas with a batch of lasting water.

Other tempest hazards, similar flooding, tin impact homes. Mulhern said that's wherefore the City of Clovis is providing escaped sandbags to residents wrong metropolis limits.

"A batch of radical usage them for h2o coming either into their homes," said Mulhern. "Other radical usage them for their driveways."

Action News witnessed Clovis residents Robert and Joey Verduzco taking vantage of the escaped proviso connected Sunday.

"We've got a flooding occupation close now," said Robert Verduzco. "We should've done this 2 days ago. Got acceptable for it."

The sandbags are disposable astatine the Clovis Corporation Yard astatine 155 N. Sunnyside Ave. The presumption is unfastened 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for Clovis residents to usage whenever a tempest is anticipated.

Residents are asked to bring their ain shovel to capable the bags, and determination is simply a bounds of 10 bags per household.

If determination are immoderate different hazards successful the city, the Clovis Police Department is asking that they beryllium reported.
Mulhern said the section volition spouse with the city's nationalist works section to instrumentality attraction of it.