Let's get straight to it.
We have team coverage as we track
yet another storm rolling in.
We'll get to ABC 10s,
Bridget Piolo and Marcus
Allen in just a few seconds.
But first we want to check in
with Jordan Tolbert. Jordan,
you're covering weather and traffic.
Today is when the biggest
concern with the storm.
Yeah, obviously there are a number
of concerns with those this storm,
which I'll get to in just a minute.
But right now what I want to show you,
I took this yesterday.
This is in the Arden arcade area.
You can see this is just a massive tree
that got sent over in this neighborhood.
Because of, you know,
the soil gets so saturated out
there and then mixed with winds,
it's a bad combo.
Expect, you know, down power lines,
down trees and make sure to have a plan if
these things do happen because in the end,
you know, you can't always prepare
enough for these things and when
it comes to really severe storms.
So right now,
Speaking of storms,
it is off the coast right now and moving
into our area almost everywhere is going
to be feeling the impacts of this storm.
Right now it's almost a Sacramento.
It's already moved through
Stockton Modesto this morning.
Some areas in the foothills also getting
hit with some rain and maybe sprinkles.
If you live up near Placerville this morning,
moving in throughout the day.
And also it's going to be really strong.
This rain during the commute this morning,
if you're headed out between 7:00
and really 9:00 AM is going to be
some really heavy rain this morning.
Of course with heavy rain
comes flood concerns as well.
When you have so many consecutive
days of rain,
flooding concerns are always at
top of mind streams and creeks and
rivers rising like the Somnus River
like we saw this whole past week.
A high wind warning is in effect.
We could see gusty winds in the valley,
spots up to 60 mph and overnight
as well while you're sleeping.
So just know things could happen overnight
and you might be waking up to downed trees,
power lines,
things of that nature.
So have a plan in place
before this storm hits US.
Snow levels are rising through Wednesday.
Today they are high at around
4000 feet or so and then they are
going to rise throughout the day
as this storm becomes warmer.
One to three feet of snow possible in the
High Sierra by the time this system ends.
On Thursday.
So in terms of the impacts,
of course, heavy rain,
heavy mountain snow as well,
travel is also going to be a
concern and flooding as well.
But the wind is going to be the
biggest thing today.
You know, with the rain that's
continuing to hit our area.
Like I said,
it's making soil softer for trees.
Watch out for your cars,
where they're parked near trees,
things like that.
These are all things we have to think
about as we head into a really stormy
weather season throughout the week.
So rain today, of course,
rain through tomorrow, Friday,
a little bit of a reprieve, light showers.
And then we're right back
into it again this weekend.
So like I said, tons of rainy weather.
If you live in a low lying area,
sandbags are always a great way to,
you know, prepare for these kinds
of conditions. This is Hwy.
50 admires right now at 6400 feet.
This is the calm before
the storm here tomorrow.
It's definitely not going to look like this.
No chain controls in effect right
now on I-80 or Hwy. 50 either.
But anticipating those as we
move throughout the day and of
course the biggest thing we're
talking about here today is win.
So we're going to go over to Bridget Boro.
She's showing us the impacts
of those windy conditions.
Good morning, Bridget.
Good morning, Jordan. With those
potentially 60 mile per hour winds
in the forecast heading our
way for tonight's storm,
crews are warning people to prepare for
more of this downed trees and power lines.
This large oak fell on New Year's Eve.
We're told a young couple lives here.
They were actually out celebrating
the holiday when this happened
so no one was injured,
but they were alerted to this from
their ring doorbell and as you could
see the tree fell on the home.
Itself even went through the roof,
through the front door and
caused significant damage.
And crews are worried that they're
going to be seeing a lot more of
this tonight as the winds pick up.
They're expecting even stronger winds
than what we saw over the weekend.
By the way,
they say what they saw over the
holiday weekend was unprecedented
in terms of all the debris in the
roads and the damage to homes.
The other factor in all of this is that
we've seen several days of rainfall
and that's going to cause a big impact.
And trees that are already
saturated water is heavy.
The roots are not being held
by the soil because things are
so wet and soft at the moment.
Then you factor in the added wind speed.
So there is a big concern for wind damage.
This evening we spoke with one
homeowner who had something very
similar happened to her home.
Thankfully,
she was not injured when a
large oak fell on her property.
Take a listen.
What came last
night and said there were live wires.
They gave me
A tag that said that they're
dangerous and it goes all the way.
Here's some more live wire.
It was very scary and I had to end
up sleeping in my car all night.
And here in Sacramento we have
a lot of these large oak trees.
We were once called the
city of trees for a reason.
They're beautiful,
but they come with a lot of danger
when you have a tree of this size,
just the width of that trunk
falling on potentially cars on
homes as people are sleeping.
So definitely something to be mindful
of as we head into this another
powerful storm this evening that could
bring the chance for power outages.
Over the weekend we saw over 100,000
people without power on New Year's
Eve and there is more potential.
For that tonight,
which is why utility companies and
1st responders are right now at a
command center just bracing for these
calls to come in so that they can
have a timely response for all these reports.
Bria and Concetta.
Yeah, Bridget, I mean,
just incredible images you're
showing us there's these
downed trees and power lines.
But quickly, before we get to mark,
what should people do if they
do see a downed power line?
Well, the first thing Conchetta,
just assume it is energized.
Don't go near it because we've seen
far too often that doing so touching
a live wire could cause serious
injury or even potentially death.
So it's very serious that
you keep yourself awake,
keep kids your neighbors away as well,
and then call the smud or PG&E
other utility provider to alert
them so they can shut off the
lines and protect the other
people in the surrounding area.
Concetta.
Alright, Bridget, thank you.
Now let's get with Marcus Allen,
who's in Elk Grove this morning.
Mark, high winds and downed
trees were seen across the area
after that weekend storm and you
talked to a family that's facing
a devastating loss because of it.
What's going on there?
Yeah, what's going on right now
is the respite from the storm.
I was standing here about 18 hours
ago and the water was up to my ankles.
If you look now,
it's still about 2 inches of water.
Still hanging out here in the driveway.
Yeah, behind me, the decimation.
There's a virtual forest coming down.
Got a chance to catch up
with Dylan and his family.
Take a look.
That's Dylan Coster and his
cousin in the Point Pleasant area
of Elk Grove as they walked.
The long walk of his driveway now
more closely resembles a boat ramp,
water still a foot deep in some places.
But the trouble began.
Before that, Dylan lives on the
property settled by his grandfather.
He and his uncle both have houses here,
surrounded by trees that began falling,
destroying fences and ultimately
build homes like over 1000 redwoods.
Literally a forest
caved in on your house and
your uncle's house. Yes.
Did you ever in your wildest
dreams see this coming? Never.
Never. Are you overwhelmed as
you walk through it? I am.
I am at this point and just gotta move on.
Start cleaning up and got a couple new
chainsaws and going to go put them to use.
The winds picked up.
The rain picked up.
When did you know you're in trouble?
When trees started falling,
falling all around us.
25 to 30 trees fell on the last wind storm.
About five of them hit the house.
A couple of them are in the house.
Yeah, I mean, and almost went
through a room with your infant son.
Yes, they were laying down on the bed
while the storm was coming in and they,
they ran out.
But they're all safe and sound now.
And I've noticed we're walking
around all this devastation.
You've been pretty much nothing
but smiles all morning long.
What do you say to people
going through this or worse?
You just got to keep on,
keep on keeping on.
Keep on keeping on such a good guy,
good spirit, good family.
They indeed are going to rebuild.
He wasn't kidding when he
said he's got to get to work.
Take a look at this.
I don't know if you can see this,
this was 120 foot tree yesterday.
He's already got it cut down,
lined up as we're worrying
about the next storm. Well,
the house is pretty much a complete loss,
so the storm can't do much
more than it's already done.
But as you saw,
keeping the spirits up.
He's he's got a persevering spirit, mark.
I could see it there on his face.
Seemed a little unfazed.
But I'm so glad he's in good spirits.
And hopefully they can rebuild and get
things back to where they need to be.
We'll talk to you soon. Thank you.
Let's take a look at the current outages.
Now. Smud is working its way
through a large number of them.
Right now, they're about 600
customers without power.
That's 2000 fewer than yesterday
and about 10,000 fewer than Monday.
PG&E is also working through the 10s of
thousands of customers who lost power.
Currently, the area is experiencing the most
outages are in Clarksburg and Courtland,
just West of Elk Grove, as well as
communities between Stockton and Lodi.
Well, we caught up with one woman
in Stockton who's still waiting
for the lights to come back on,
and on top of that, she also had 7 to
8 inches of flooding in her basement.
Dana Ulrich lost power around
10:00 PM on New Year's Eve.
She found a power line that
was laying across her backyard,
so she called PG&E but Dana
says that no one answered.
She then called.
Please who called PG&E again.
She says crews did
eventually come to her home,
but said the problem was a transformer.
They couldn't fix it, so they left.
Now she's lined the windows with
plastic and hopes of keeping her
105 year old home a little warmer.
It somewhat works.
I'm sure that if I didn't have it on there,
my house would probably be about 30
inside due to no heat in the 40s.
Right now I've got it into
the I think about 4045,
if that still really cold.
She tells us that she sleeps
next to her twin sister for body
heat at night, and when it gets unbearable
they go out to the car and turn
the heat on. Well, as this storm
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