Power Comes Back On Slowly in Parts of Placer County Impacting Seniors

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COLFAX (CBS13) — “They person a warming center, but I’m disabled and can’t get there,” said Diane Swendner.

After astir 5 days without power, Swendner decided to instrumentality it out.

“The powerfulness came connected past nighttime for conscionable a small portion and past went close backmost off,” she said. So she hunkered down again.

“In furniture [is] the lone lukewarm spot with tons of lukewarm covers and my broad from Minnesota that’s from a wool mill,” she said.

She couldn’t get to her car to complaint her telephone due to the fact that it was piled precocious with snowfall and her breathing instrumentality wasn’t working.

“The occurrence dept was bully capable to travel implicit and complaint a artillery for maine truthful I tin usage it,” she said.

First responders evacuated two-thirds of those surviving astatine Canyon View Apartments and brought successful the Salvation Army. Then probation crews were brought successful to shovel snow.

“Being ex-military I wanted to assistance out,” said Chester Overstreet, who is 1 of those who stayed.

“This has been a lifesaver,” helium said, arsenic helium showed america the hunting cogwheel helium wore to enactment warm.

He was a agleam airy during the outage getting radical wherever they needed to spell with his 4×4.

“I took a mates radical that needed rides implicit to the VA present successful municipality and past a mates radical that needed rides present and determination and conscionable helped them out. When I assistance people, it’s successful my heart,” helium said with tears successful his eyes.

Overstreet has been a lifesaver for many, however, helium wasn’t the lone 1 helping out. A champion person with a backhoe was besides helping a buddy successful Nevada County.

“He got inundated with snowfall and [the] generator can’t get out, truthful I’m going to spell excavation him out,” Shawn Foster said. “He called maine similar 4 days ago. He has a generator that’s what I’m digging retired close present truthful helium tin get substance to it,” helium said.

As state stations reopened and restocked truthful did the assemblage of Colfax, however, substance tin inactive beryllium hard to find.

While parts of Colfax are powered backmost up, not everyone has powerfulness again.

“It’s beauteous scary, you don’t cognize if you’re going to frost to death!” said Diane.

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