[Inyo-Mono]

And those guys have to be able to get out of their house first. Where do they begin w/plowing eight feet or 30 feet of snow? Put it where?

They start on top of the snowpack and work down. It's kind of funny, but the Eastern Sierra is at the edge of the Great Basin Desert on the Nevada border, so the snow is hauled out in trucks and dumped into the desert, about a 40 mile drive.

Here I thought 8 ft was unreal. I had no idea it got that bad - I would expect this in Alaska. I guess if this is somewhat normal, you have a generator otherwise several weeks w/o FR? ;)

Actually, we get a LOT more snow than Alaska. The Sierra of California has some of the highest snowfall totals in the entire U.S.A. Think Donner party. Generators, kerosene lamps and woodstoves help. In the last few decades haven't been without power more than a few days at a time, but yes it is hard without FR!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Are you on the 395?

[sissyjane]

“Actually, we get a LOT more snow than Alaska. The Sierra of California has some of the highest snowfall totals in the entire U.S.A. Think Donner party. Generators, kerosene lamps and woodstoves help. In the last few decades haven’t been without power more than a few days at a time, but yes it is hard without FR!”

The last big storm in November left us here on the west slope of the Sierra without power for a week! This round we are only getting rain...so far!