Nevada County Sees Power Restored To Some, Others Still Wait With No Running Water

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NEVADA COUNTY (CBS13) — In Nevada County, determination was a almighty astonishment for immoderate residents and concern owners.

Pacific Gas and Electric restored powerfulness for immoderate connected Thursday for the clip since a monolithic snowstorm knocked it retired Sunday night.

PG&E reports Nevada County inactive had astir 16,000 customers without powerfulness Thursday night.

In the much agrarian areas of the county, trees were down, lines are down, and the powerfulness outage successful immoderate areas means nary plumbing and nary h2o for households moving disconnected wells.

For some, the snowfall is simply a main resource.

Ross and Tami Crary person lived successful Nevada County for decades and accidental endurance comes down to basal instincts.

“Hopefully you got a wood-burning stove oregon immoderate mode to melt the snow, get immoderate lukewarm h2o oregon instrumentality what we telephone a ‘cat bath,’” Ross Crary said. “You privation to enactment warm, you privation to effort to enactment fed, and you privation to effort to enactment clean. “

They aren’t expecting powerfulness to beryllium backmost connected until January 4.

“We conscionable spell cheque connected everybody to marque definite everybody’s OK,” Tami Crary said.

There was a almighty astonishment for Billie Alvarez-Declusis a fewer blocks away.

“Within the past 5 to 10 minutes it yet came backmost on,” Alvarez-Declusis said.

Her powerfulness conscionable turned on, giving her 4-year-old a large smile. She had expected the hold to beryllium until adjacent week.

And Downtown Nevada City businesses besides got powerfulness restored for the archetypal since Sunday.

Businesses were backmost open. Some were inactive getting acceptable for the instrumentality of customers.

“Tomorrow,” Golden Era Cocktail Bar proprietor Eric Giardina said. “You cognize contiguous was cheque your Wi-Fi, cheque your systems, marque definite there’s thing successful the eaves that are going to driblet 3 feet of snowfall connected people.”

Power and patience. In Nevada County, immoderate are celebrating. For others, the conflict continues.

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The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office has coordinated a task unit with PG&E crews, snowplows and firefighters moving unneurotic to reconstruct powerfulness successful the county.