About 21K PG&E Customers Still Remain Without Power In NorCal High Country

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January 4, 2022 astatine 10:57 am

TRUCKEE (AP/CBS13) — Rain and snowfall showers – on with wide powerfulness outages successful the Sierra – lingered implicit Northern California connected Tuesday arsenic the latest upwind strategy moved through.

The tempest added to important aboriginal play precipitation dropped by almighty December systems that besides chopped powerfulness to thousands.

Pacific Gas & Electric said astir 21,000 customers were inactive without powerfulness successful its Sierra Division, including El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties.

Vast accumulations of snow, downed trees and different hazards continued to forestall appraisal and repair of equipment, the inferior said, adding that communal assistance crews from elsewhere were assisting.

Forecasters billed the beforehand that arrived Monday arsenic anemic but it near immoderate precocious rainfall totals successful the San Francisco Bay Area arsenic well.

Mount Tamalpais northbound of the Golden Gate recorded much than 4 inches (10 centimeters) successful 24 hours. The San Mateo and Santa Cruz coastal ranges received 1 inch to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters).

[#PLACERCOUNTY ROADS UPDATE] Current priorities are:
➡️Widen roads this week by removing further snowfall from constrictive roads
➡️Continue to region fallen trees
➡️Mobilize further histrion removal contractors
➡️Encourage neighbors to assistance each different shovel snowfall berms pic.twitter.com/zHJY0nAzSk

— Placer County (@PlacerCA) January 3, 2022

Flood watches were posted successful the northwest portion of the authorities amid concerns astir rising streams and creeks.

Temporary procreation was deployed to 11 locations including hospitals, warming centers and substations.

The adjacent accidental of rainfall and snowfall is expected by Friday.

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