Posted on 02/17/2019 5:34:47 PM PST by Hojczyk
Ski and snowboard fans may have to make plans to stay inside over the Presidents Day three-day weekend instead of taking to the slopes as state officials warn there is too much snow to be cleared making mountain roads dangerous.
Mammoth Mountain, a popular ski resort, is just 5 inches short of 30-year snowfall record for February.
The Daily Mail reported:
The storm was expected to dump between 3 and 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) of fresh snow in a region where some ski resorts reported getting 3 feet (1 meter) since Thursday. Officials warned of avalanches in the greater Lake Tahoe Area, where heavy snow and high winds were expected through Sunday.
Chains were required for travel in many other parts of the towering Sierra Nevada.
“All avid skiers are itching to get out on the mountain, but the roads are pretty treacherous right now,” Kevin Cooper, marketing director for Lake Tahoe TV, said in the Mail report.
“State Route 267 is so deep that plows can no longer plow. They have ordered up a large blower to try and clear the pass,” Placer County sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Scott said in a tweet with a video.
Weather forecasters are predicting snow storms in northern Arizona this weekend. And in some parts of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, road crews are clearing avalanches that closed highways and doing operations to prevent more slides.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a white paper on its website that warns the western United States will suffer drought and reduced snowpack, even as strong snowstorms hit in the northwest U.S. and above-normal rainfall measurements in southern California have been recorded so far this year.
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The real problem is Caltrans is utterly unprepared to keep the roads open. They get this much snow in Utah and Colorado and have no problem keeping the roads clear.
When you spend your life believing your own BS about eternal droughts you end up not being ready for reality...like normal snowfall.
L8r
Is California’s Drought over ?
Back to the drawing board on that wild guess. Only 12 years left - startinggggg now!
There goes the damn climate changing again. Only 11 years and 10 months left for humanity. The horror.
The drought was reduced with the En Nino (2015-16) and wiped out in the record 2016-17 season. That rain and snow was the main reason for the fires later in 2017 and 2018, not drought.
Yes, but Gov. Nuisance probably won’t admit it.
They seem to like keeping tight controls over resources.
“Saving us from ourselves”, I suppose, and our habits of using too much water by Govt. standards.
And they’ll still be whining about a drought come August, despite record snow pack. That’s what happens when you build no new reservoirs despite massive population increase. But basic infrastructure isn’t sexy.
Well, I’ve lived in the Sierra and I live in the Colorado mountains now. Nothing in Colorado is like the snow in the Sierra when the pattern is like it is now. A foot an hour is common. It’s heavy wet snow as well. You can park a car on the street at night and next morning there is no sign of where you left it. The roads in Colorado close too, mostly from bad drivers.
The Libtards in ski towns have been running a Gorebot propaganda group called Save Our Snow (SOS, how cute).
They hold events and raise funds for propaganda to save the ski life from the impending doom of NO MORE SNOW.
“Is California’s Drought over ?”
Most of if not all of our lakes which supply our water in Northern California are full and running over the spillways.
Most if not all of the local news wipes have hidden this reality from their readers or tv audiences.
Colorado closes the roads all the time....three feet is a lot...
Plus you have to be able to see the road.
We get tons in northern Mi. Have about four feet at the house. Roads are all clear. Got about 120 inches so far this winter. You are so correct.
One has to realize that the Marxist Governor of CA, Heir Newsom, and his band of corrupt vermin, will forever declare the state is in a drought. They prefer to tax the hell out of everyone on their water bills as well as restrict when and how we use water.
It’s all about power and corruption in CA.
Not many mountain roads in MI.
Yosemite will be spectacular this summer, snow melt will keep the waterfalls going full blast into August. Unfortunately, there will be more selfie deaths from people not paying attention to the warning signs to not leave the trails.
Even at ankle depth, those rushing waters are dangerous as hell.
Not true, Caltrans is always prepared for heavy snow in the Eastern Sierra, it is the amount, at least 25 feet of new snow has fallen on Mammoth Mountain since February 1st. Not the 3 to 6 feet the article would lead you to believe. There is severe danger from avalanches all along Hwy 395 from Mammoth almost the Nevada border.
Tons of great downhill ski resorts though. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/outdoors/2017/12/24/top-10-ski-resorts-areas-michigan-winter/975724001/
Is it too late to blame Trump?
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