By last weekend, all highways leading up into the mountains were closed and have opened intermittently since then to residents and convoys of trucks loaded with food or other supplies.
“We’ve said we could push it out as far as two weeks but because of the state’s efforts and the equipment that’s coming in behind us we’re hoping to drop that down to a week,” he told a press conference.
The sheriff and other officials said progress has been made, but they described severe conditions that for example have forced firefighters to reach emergency scenes such as fires in snowcats. “The enormity of this event is hard to comprehend,” said state Assemblyman Tom Lackey. “You know, we’re thinking, we’re in Southern California, but yet we have had an inundation that has really, really generated a severe amount of anxiety, frustration and difficulty, especially to the victims and those who are actually trapped in their own home.”
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