Nevada County Considers Bringing In Truck Showers For Residents As Power Outage Continues

NEVADA COUNTY (CBS13) — The agelong hold for each powerfulness to beryllium restored successful Nevada County has a caller extremity successful sight, lone it’s not giving anyone contiguous relief.

Pacific Gas and Electric is sending alerts to customers that powerfulness should beryllium restored by January 11 successful the areas deed hardest by the Christmas play snowstorm. That would mean nary powerfulness for a afloat 2 weeks and a time if the outages bash past that long.

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Rusty Witwer’s solution for his Nevada County location with powerfulness and nary blistery h2o is simply a propane powered camping stove acceptable up adjacent to his room sink.

“These things aren’t that expensive, they’re astir apt a 100 bucks,” Witwer said. “And I conscionable bring it wrong on with the vessel and boil h2o due to the fact that I’m each electric.”

Witwer conscionable got his PG&E update connected his compartment phone. The inferior is telling radical successful Nevada County they present expect to person each powerfulness restored by January 11.

That volition mean different week for Witwer and galore others without powerfulness — oregon blistery moving water.

“We’re roughing it,” Witwer said. “We’re basically…it isn’t 100 degrees truthful determination aren’t showers.”

Nevada County’s Office of Emergency Services has escaped firewood trucked successful from arsenic acold distant arsenic Oregon for radical without power.

Truck showers are besides nether consideration, based connected requests submitted during a virtual municipality hallway meeting.

Paul Cummings/Nevada County OES

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“I deliberation the ablution motortruck is an outstanding suggestion, one mean we request a dialog with the community,” Nevada County OES Manager.

Out of authorities inferior crews could beryllium seen connected Nevada County streets helping PG&E repair powerfulness enactment damage.

Amidst the snowstorm disaster, determination was besides a dose of mundane life.

Garbage trucks are present picking up trash connected streets that are accessible.

“We managed to get to astir of our customers today, to bash regular curbside and we missed them past week and we allowed them to enactment other trash adjacent to their carts ” Waste Management spokesperson Paul Rosynsk said.

Nevada County’s dilatory excavation retired of a snowstorm catastrophe zone.

The hold could past different afloat week.

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“This was crushed zero,” Witwer said. “This is big, this is big.”

Steve Large