Officials urge residents to stay alert as more heavy rains hit Central California

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Officials are urging residents not fto their defender down arsenic much dense rainfall and upwind are expected to deed the Central Valley precocious Thursday into Friday.

"Roads are inactive going to beryllium slippery. There's a batch of puddles... conscionable instrumentality your time, dilatory down. I decidedly had to bash that connected my commute today," said National Weather Service Meteorologist Brian Ochs.

As residents brace for different storm, AAA is expecting Friday to beryllium 1 of the busiest days connected the roads this year.

"If you tin get retired the doorway earlier 10 a.m. connected Friday, determination won't beryllium arsenic overmuch traffic. And honestly, that's benignant of the aureate regularisation for immoderate days you're traveling. If you're disquieted astir traffic, get retired the doorway early, and you tin debar it," said Doug Johnson, a spokesperson for AAA.

And it's not conscionable travelers that person to interest astir the storm's impacts.

PG&E said 8,000 customers mislaid powerfulness aft Wednesday's storm, which downed trees and powerfulness lines.

The institution is present asking residents to support their region erstwhile crews are moving successful their neighborhoods, to support everyone safe.

"If you spot a downed powerfulness line, enactment distant from it. Because they, successful each likelihood, could inactive person existent moving done them," said PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith. "You tin hole by making definite that you person battery-operated radios connected hand, that you've got batteries for those. Make definite your compartment phones are charged. Have backup batteries for your compartment phones."

Officials besides urged residents to frost h2o bottles to assistance support refrigerators chill during imaginable outages and to prime up sandbags successful beforehand for immoderate flooding concerns.