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 city had sold off most of it's snow removable equipment.
In 1998 the town shut down for almost six weeks. Mail delivery was suspended until further notice.
That was my other guess. We try to not include those places in our state in the great upnorth. I live six hours farther north in the real Michigan and in the middle of the snow belt. Sometime come up here. Cali has nothing on us and neither do the sierras.
The point is the DOT had nothing that worked on roads below 18 degrees, with no sun and steady snow for 3 days. Sometimes nature wins, regardless of what state you’re in.
Not yet.
Bwahahahaha!
Well we get mail delivery suspended fairly often here. Several times for a few days or short week in the last month.
I never heard about the snow plows...gonna check on that..
Cali has a rep for not being prepared however. Used to live in Wa and it was the same crap.
Ping to post 41, can you enlighten me?
Lots of snow up here, it looks like the Swiss Alps out of my windows! Gorgeous! Bring it on!
But basic infrastructure isn’t sexy
and cost to much- cuts into pols ability to skim
They’re doing everything they can to sustain the global warming myth too.
That’s a lot of water that eventually has to melt and run down the hill. Good thing they have all those reservoirs in CA ready to catch it.
Stay away from Donner pass and a tour guide with the last name of “Packer”.
“The real problem is Caltrans is utterly unprepared to keep the roads open.“
Obviously you have never been there.
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Bingo
Record snowfall in Mammoth.
Reread. That 3 to 6 was for the latest storm.
Was following it in the Boston papers when I was up there.
I live in Trinity county California, the stuff that’s been coming down here the last couple of days makes Sierra Cement look like Park City powder (I’ve skied both).
It’s so wet and heavy, the snow blower on the tractor just clogged up with mush and was just about useless, even caused the tractor to bog down.
Had to disconnect the blower and just try to bucket the crap out of the way, it’s 3.4 miles to the paved road, OH JOY.
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