Posted on 03/09/2023 8:19:25 AM PST by BenLurkin
Authorities say 12 people have been found dead so far following the historic storms that buried the San Bernardino Mountains under several feet of snow, covering homes and paralyzing travel.
“So far, we can only confirm (one), a traffic accident, as weather-related,” San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Mara Rodriguez said Wednesday. “The preliminary information in the other deaths does not indicate they are weather-related, but those investigations are ongoing.”
“There’s going to be a lot more,” said Megan Vazquez, a volunteer. “It’s been very cold here. It’s been below freezing, so if somebody didn’t have electricity or gas to heat their home, they may have frozen to death. I mean, it’s shocking.”
The storms blocked road access to mountain areas, leaving stranded locals to fend for themselves without power as supplies of food, medicine and fuel were dwindling.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in the area on March 1. [And then left on vacation to Baja]
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Just like that movie “Alive: Miracle In The Andes” starring Ethan Hawke.
Yeah but Gigi* has CONvid so that news is more importanter. I wonder if ‘they’ picked it up while visiting Baja.
*Gigi=grinning gavin
Donner....Party of 50.................
Wait, I thought it was the Germans and Europeans who were going to freeze to death this winter, not Californians.
Memorialized by the ever popular Far Side Donner Party Snow Dome.
Soooo unacceptable in this day and age. We have all kinds of communications...
At least they didn’t die from the CCP virus!
The lesson here is that if you live in an area governed by a dimrat, you are on your own.
They don’t have snow shovels? No house generators? No bottled water? No alternative heat source (fireplace, gas stove, etc)? No survival skills at all?
Many probably no, but when you are talking 6 to 13 feet of snow even being prepared things can go sideways. If your generator runs out of fuel after a few days you can’t just pop into town and get more.
🤣What for? This was a little bit beyond snow shovels. No plows, no roads. Just hunker down with heat, food, and water.
I have a California transplant on the street. We got 6 inches of snow...a rare occurrence, and she had a flat shovel out to clear her gravel driveway. Why? Made a muddy mess to move the sparse two inches of snow that were left.
I remember Gary Larson getting some blowback from the humorless leftists over that one.
Where are they going to dig to?
Did PETA come to his defense?..................
You’re so right! Talk is cheap. I think I have all of the requisite survival tools to have “weathered” the snow storms in California but I only got about two feet of snow. My power was only out for three days; but that’s because utility crews didn’t have as many fallen trees, 5 to 10 foot snow drifts and scarcity of personnel (because the emergency was so dire) where I live.
Must be scary living and dying in a hellhole state.
In Florida in a medical emergency DeSantis is saving citizens with free monoclonal antibody centers - and in natural disasters he's getting people off dangerous islands then rebuilding bridges in WEEKS not months after hurricanes. We run a huge surplus in Florida so money's not a problem saving lives...
Sheet years ago....my little town lost power for a week.....in the middle of winter. We survived...wearing real Winter clothes....and some wood.
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