Starting at about 3 am this morning, the frogs, ducks and geese were standing in line to come in and get out of the rain.
Our house is basically sound proof except when there is really hard rain with high wind. We had loud and noisy rain from 3 to 6 am.
The current Doppler shows the storm is now hitting Sac and into the Sierras. They are talking about 10-12’ of snow in the Truckee ski areas.
I 80 east and 50 were probably nightmares with the early Christmas traffic (last day of school until after New Years) was yesterday. A lot of parents kept their kids out of school yesterday or took them home early beginning at noon. Then they head to the Truckee/Tahoe area for a week of skiing with Christmas.
We have had 2 plus days of rain and the predictions show another 8-10 days.
We will probably find out if all of our flood prevention construction will work or not.
I used to live there at Lake Tahoe, briefly at Incline Village and then for over a year at South Shore. I worked on the Taho Queen the sternwheeler and also as a snowcat mechanic for Heavenly.
I remember I had to board the cable car up to my shop and down every day, a couple of times the winds and snow were so heavy we had to ride down on specially built tracked equipment that looked like a snow groomer with the wide grousers but had several rows of seats in the bed instead, iot was a heck of a cool job, and the skiing was free!
12’ of snow is a LOT, its going to jam up the roads for a couple of days, at the least it will help raise the lake level. I wish I was there again but I moved to Alaska.
I could take a trip south to Whittier, they get 85’ of snow per year.