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Perhaps one of the most important steps to take after inclement weather is making sure the roads get cleared as quickly and safely as possible.

Center in the middle of your town there. what are you seeing and what are you hearing outside? >> good afternoon. we are at our city emergency operation center that's been active since 6:00 a.m. this morning with local officials, first responders, all hands on deck. we are seeing power lines and tons of trees down county wide. our message to our folks is to please remain indoors and please remain off of the road. >> our viewers are looking at a map to see exactly where this hurricane is. the eye wall is right there. it's right where you are. you mentioned the plea for people to stay off the ro...

So we are encouraging our residents to shelter in place, stay off the roads and this will ensure the safety of citizens and first responders working through the storm. also it will allow our power companies to the get out there and restore power because we are likely to be without power for several hours or the next few days. >> you were tell ing before we came on that your town and the surround ing areas has a population of about 120,000 people. relatively small area so i'm suspecting a lot of people know each other and this is a close nit area. have you and the people around you been a part ...

♪ ♪ - why are these so bad? - if i would've used kayak to book our car, we could have saved on our trip instead of during our trip. ughh - kayak. search one and done. cars encased in ice, roofs caving in and food and medicine running dangerously low. that's some of what residents in southern california's mountain communities are dealing with. after more than a week of being snowed in by historic back-to-back storms. officials say they made major progress, clearing roads, but for people trying to stretch supplies and in some cases without power or heat, it is just not fast enough. and in ...

This rain and snow. because of the drought. but we've made huge improvements, in just the last five to six weeks. looking at the forecast, you're talking snow being measured in feet across the area. likely one to three feet for most of those areas. along the coastal regions, now you're talking one to two inches of rain. and even in some of the other areas of washington, idaho, and oregon, still looking at, at least a half a foot of snow, to top out in a lot of these places. the concern is getting into the short period of time, we talked about this before, fred, the concern becomes mud slides, ...