Posted on 02/01/2017 12:24:05 PM PST by Mariner
After a month of huge blizzards and atmospheric river storms, the Sierra Nevada snowpack source of a third of Californias drinking water is 177 percent of the historic average, the biggest in more than two decades.
The last time there was this much snow on Feb. 1 in the Sierra was in 1995. Pete Wilson was Californias governor, Seinfeld was the top-rated show on television and Steve Young had just led the 49ers to a blowout win in Super Bowl XXIX.
In a breathtaking shift for a state that had been mired in five years of punishing drought, 25 feet of new snow has fallen on Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe since New Years Day. Freeways and schools across the Sierra have been closed at times, and firefighters are having trouble finding fire hydrants.
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Great, spring floods coming.
Those idiots have an opportunity right now to throw up some reservoirs but they better act quickly. They only have 3 months left before the thaw.
ICE AGE!! ICE AGE!! ICE AGE!!
Send a check to Al Gore to fix this.
Kirkwood!
It’s so hot it’s SNOWING.
Or, as they saying in the Marshall Islands regarding taking a shade break under a palm tree, “A falling coconut makes no sound.”
Some one needs to call Al Gore and warn him.
Musta been a Global Warming Conference scheduled there
Mammoth Mountain (East of the redwoods and San Francisco) got about 320 inches of snow a few weeks ago in just 1 week when California was getting all that rain.
I was at Heavenly last week. Awesome conditions.
And Moonbeam will let all the water return to the ocean from whence it came without letting the farmers have a drop.
When does he term limit out? Or die?
He is undergoing his second round of cancer treatment.
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