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.
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.
Some people don’t understand what kind of snowfalls are possible in the high Sierras. They have no frame of reference, I get that. Sierra snows aren’t like the Champaign powder of Utah or the Canadian Rockies. Sierra snow can be of high moisture content thus the terminology “Sierra cement”. Right now Donner pass is looking at 43 feet of snow in some places. This is totally out of most people’s ability to comprehend. We here in Southern Vermont got the tail end of the latest storm to bury California. We got 16 inches of very heavy wet snow that was difficult to deal with even for an experienced person such as myself and that’s 16 inches not 6 feet.