While there's snow in the Sierra those in the valley are only seeing rain. The amount of rain falling should not lead to flooding, but with all of the leaves that have fallen, they can clog up storm drains and cause issues that way. The strong winds that led up to this rain made a lot of those leaves fall.
“If you see something clogged, call Reno Direct,” said Tim Hendricks, the Streets Division Manager for the City of Reno. “Let us know where it's at and we'll get out there to clear it. And if you can just kind of help as a resident, maybe take a shovel or a broom or something… keep water flowing.”
The National Weather Service says the only place we should keep an eye on for rain, is burn scars from recent fires. When a wildfire goes through an area, it erases any vegetation that was once there and it takes a long time for it to come back.
“The vegetation acts both to kind of slow the energy of the high intensity rainfall, but also, to hold the soils in place, whether even if that's whether that's trees or just shrubs and grass, it still does a lot to slow that intensity of the rainfall, but also to hold the soils in place,” said Tim Bardsley, Senior Service Hydrologist with the National Weather Service.
Without that vegetation, the rain keeps on running and can lead to flooding.
If flooding does start within the Reno city limits, call Reno Direct to report it at (775) 344-INFO or click here.
