Fresno prepares for flooding as storm brings heavy rain and strong winds

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Strong winds and dense rainfall are forecast to rotation into Central California, with the Valley level expected to spot impacts by Tuesday night.

As overmuch of the authorities braces for bedewed weather, Fresno officials accidental they are moving to support residents harmless from flooding.

"We person implicit 1,800 miles of roads present successful Fresno and each of them service arsenic drainage channels to immoderate grade and each of them person tempest drains successful them with trees that enactment the street. So, those leaves extremity up washing down to the tempest drains and we gotta cleanable them out," said Brian Russell, adjunct manager for Public Works.

Russell said the biggest contented during storms is debris. City officials are urging residents to cheque for hazards astir their homes that could pb to flooding.

"On a time similar today, rake up the leaves, enactment them successful the greenish discarded container. Make definite that you don't person immoderate trash sitting around, get each that picked up," Russell said.

Potholes are besides a concern, and metropolis crews person been moving to capable gaps up of the storm.

To forestall flooding, Fresno has partnered with different agencies, including the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District.

"The pump stations let america to evacuate the tempest h2o retired of the basin and downstream to forestall immoderate benignant of localized flooding," said operations technologist Jarrod Takemoto.

Takemoto said a basin adjacent northeast Fresno tin clasp astir 4 inches of rainfall. The territory manages much than 150 drainage areas crossed Fresno County.

"Really, it's each hands connected platform from our standpoint, for our unit to marque definite that we are protecting the community," Takemoto said.

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