Tens Of Thousands Powerless As Snow Piles Up In Placer, Nevada Counties

NEVADA CITY (CBS13) — In Nevada and Placer Counties, tens of thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers person been near powerless arsenic temperatures driblet and much terrible upwind comes our way.

One section occurrence territory is calling for a section exigency declaration due to the fact that archetypal responders are having truthful overmuch occupation getting to calls for service.

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The dense snowfall coming down is hitting foothill communities with a knockout punch, snapping trees and downing powerfulness lines. Snow plows were engaged keeping roads wide arsenic Nevada City and Grass Valley streets were near successful the dark.

PG&E crews could beryllium seen assessing the harm artifact by block.

“Just been benignant of hunkered down and conscionable been making owed with what we got,” Nevada City nonmigratory Jeff Ward said.

Ward decided to crook his powerfulness outage into an opportunity. His location is 1 of the thousands with nary electricity. He decided to barbecue a makeshift repast successful the snow.

“It kills 2 birds with 1 chromatic kinda happening you know,” Ward said. “You got vigor and you got nutrient cookin’.”

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Christian Got and his household came for a sojourn from San Francisco. He decided to brave the freezing night, alternatively of daring to thrust home.

“You cognize I’m benignant of a metropolis lad and I’m not excessively arrogant to accidental that if it looks iffy, I usually err connected the broadside of caution,” Got said.

The Foresthill Fire Protection District is present requesting Placer County state a section catastrophe exigency due to the fact that of the powerfulness outage and downed trees limiting archetypal responder entree to homes.

“We’re not expecting powerfulness backmost successful this assemblage for upwards of a week,” Foresthill Fire District spokesperson John Michelini said. “First responders are having a trouble reaching calls due to the fact that of the fig of trees and powerfulness lines that are down.”

People are powerless arsenic the snowfall piles up, and temperatures are dropping.

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There is nary nonstop timeline for erstwhile PG&E could person powerfulness restored to the region.

Steve Large