At least 13 people have died since a series of storms hit. Officials are investigating the cause, but one resident feels the weather is to blame.
KPBS spoke with Simons Thursday, a day before President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for 34 counties in California, including San Bernardino.said it had been called out for 13 death investigations since the storm. Eight people had been found dead in their homes.
While the Sheriff's Department said"the circumstances observed at the scenes did not present as weather-related," Simons believes many of the elderly victims would still be alive if not for the storm. "To me that's the measuring stick of whether or not they died from the storm or not. If you die in your home, it's just sad," he said.
He said there are message boards on social media for local people where they can communicate with each other and they ask for help. He said those get tougher and tougher to read because you can only help those around you. "Somebody posted something asking for help saying, 'Hey, we only have half a jar of peanut butter left for our family and we're stuck and trapped, can somebody get over here?'" Simons said."I look out my door and there's six feet of snow all the way down the street, and there's no way I could go anywhere, and it's just heartbreaking.
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