Rain and Snow Preparations by Tulare County and City of Visalia

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's each hands connected platform for the City of Visalia's Public Works Department and the Tulare County Resource Management Agency arsenic the adjacent large tempest is expected successful the vale done the weekend.

"We screen from the vale level up to the mountains, truthful determination are a fewer antithetic things we person to beryllium cautious of but truly we are making definite that signs are staged successful lawsuit during rainfall we bash get a small spot of flooding truthful we tin pass people," says Jennifer Fawkes, with Tulare County.

Crews person been moving non-stop, ensuring drains are cleared and acceptable for h2o flow.

For some agencies, the enactment is year-round.

"By maintaining each of our creeks and ditches, clearing those and getting them acceptable for flows that travel done the season, we person besides been moving to support each of our tempest drain basins on with cleaning our tempest drain lines passim the city," mentions Nick Bartsch, Public Works Director for the City of Visalia.

Tulare County is preparing by ensuring their shelters are acceptable to spell and occurrence stations are acceptable with soil bags.

Plus, double-checking instrumentality for some rainfall and snow.

"Up successful the mountains we are expecting snow, truthful depending connected those conditions we whitethorn request to adjacent the occidental disagreement and parker pass, that volition beryllium a telephone depending connected however overmuch snowfall it's really gotten," explains Fawkes.

As the tempest approaches this weekend, locals are urged to enactment informed, enactment vigilant and bash their portion astatine home.

"We bash inquire our residents to notify america if flooding does support for 20 to 30 minutes and past our crews tin travel retired and code those areas, our tempest drain strategy is not designed for those precocious strength events truthful we bash inquire for our residents to cleanable their drain and gutters and assistance america to marque definite that debris and leaves don't accumulate," Bartsch.

Fawkes shares immoderate tips for drivers, "Slow down successful the rain, truthful galore different things tin happen, dilatory down. Don't question if you don't request to, if you don't request to spell to the mountains this play and you are not prepared to thrust successful the snowfall delight don't."

For radical successful metropolis limits, you tin telephone your section non-emergency enactment if you spot flooding concerns.

Tulare County residents successful unincorporated areas tin telephone the Resource Management Agency, 559-624-7000 oregon spell to their website.

People tin besides download the Alert TC app for the latest information.

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