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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
You are so right. Lake Shasta water level reads as follows:
“WATER LEVEL
1,021.60
Feet MSL
Sunday, February 17, 2019
3:00:00 PM
Level is 45.40 feet
below full pool of 1,067.00”
http://shasta.uslakes.info/Level/
Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
That's right. The Drought Monitor https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu is showing drought in SoCal where there is no drought. The explanation is that a couple of reservoirs are low. Not too many years ago the Drought Monitor was an objective website. Now it is politiciized.
Heavenly Valley blew past the all-time February record on Feb 15th.
Over 16.5 ft as of that date. And certainly more to come.
Overall, the Sierras are at 149% of annual snowfall with at least 8 weeks to go.
Just wow.
I spend a few months in Fort Ord in 1992 and I think the a drought ended when I showed up ,LOL
My wife’s from MI; I’m from CA. The hills in MI are nothing like the mountains in CA.
“They get this much snow in Utah and Colorado and have no problem keeping the roads clear.”
They get light, fluffy snow with about 1/3 the water content of Sierra Cement.
A slight breeze will clear their roads.
AND, the high passes close there all the time, just like here.
That’s what we get here too. Fluff.
I’ve been through the Sierras.
No. Sacramento will continue dumping the surplus fresh drinking water into the ocean in order to sustain the blue unicorn. Or, is it the rainbow water nymph? Or the snail darter?
Anyway, rest assured, kommiefornia's totalitarian state will find a way to push their dishonest agenda.
“Got about 120 inches so far this winter. You are so correct.”
Nonsense.
In the high Sierra they’ve received over 20ft of snow in 15 days.
Michigan hasn’t seen anything like that, ever.
Couldn’t keep the roads clear at sea level, Christmas 2017, after just 3 days of single digit temps and lake effect snow.
Two years.
He’s only been in office TWO FREAKING YEARS and already he’s ended Global Warming.
Is there anything he can’t do?
“They have ordered up a large blower to try and clear the pass,” “
Stormy Daniels is pretty affordable these days.
Oh yeah? Well here in the DC area we get 4 or 5 inches and shut down all the schools and the government.
Any word from the Donner Party?
Oh where was that... battlecreek?
Huh?
Muskegon.
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