Are we shut down?
NOPE!"
Of course, your highway department's snowplows are 15 feet tall battleships with blades as big as a garage door up there. :-)
We just got 1.5' down in the valley and several feet up in the mountains. I have over a foot in the front yard and the city roads just started drying up after a week of slippery ice.
Our first snowfall after summer was on September 30th, and we had 90 degree weather two weeks before that. That beats all records, I'm told.
I'm basically in the extended Eastern Sierra range next to Lake Tahoe.
For those of you Freepers who are championship skiiers and want conditions like you can only find in the Swiss Alps and the Rockies, get on a plane to Reno soon as you can. It's shaping up to be a snowy winter like few can remember in recent history.
I fondly or at times not so affectionately remember living around Lake Tahoe back around 1990, I first lived at Incline Village and found I had to commute to South Shore and at the time I was driving a 1974 Chevy 3/4 ton 2wd Pu and even when there was literally a chain across the highway heading there I would drop it and proceed with my snow chains on. one night I was out having a few drinks and I decided to go see my future wife who lived down the hill in Carson City so I literally flew down Spooner Summit in near white out conditions drunk off my ass, to this day I still don’t know how I did that.
And then there was two years of working on the Tahoe Queen as chief engineer and having to do that in the winter of clearing the dock of snow, of dealing with the long ski tour trips to north shore when the lake had 8 foot waves, of also yet another job working as a snowcat mechanic at Heavenly at the upper elevation shop and during times of heavy snow having to travel by snowmacine down the mountain when the tram was shut down.
I kinda miss Tahoe but then I remember the cost of living there, even by Alaska standards it was outrageous, especially housing. Worst was the TRPA that would not let you even paint your house anything but a surrounding area color. And I remember watching chopper bikers from probably Sacramento or thereabouts riding through the snow slush in parade style heading for the casinos in the summer when a surprise snow dump occurred.
For those of you Freepers who are championship skiiers and want conditions like you can only find in the Swiss Alps and the Rockies, get on a plane to Reno soon as you can. It's shaping up to be a snowy winter like few can remember in recent history.
You got it! Carson City last Friday...
