The County of Monterey Department of Emergency Management has been anticipating the arrival of heavy rain Wednesday morning, after the area was hit hard by similar storms last year.

This time the county is being more proactive by restocking sand stockpiles for public use, checking and clearing county-maintained culverts, patching potholes and preparing to close low-water crossings if needed all before the water arrives, according to the county.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.