Posted on 05/12/2002 8:16:53 PM PDT by Dallas
I'm right between NYC and Newark, I didn't buy bait tonight because of the tornado watch. It is a bit unusual for the strength of the storms, but after the mild winter in the northeast, we are primed for mid-summer type thunderstorms. I know what you mean by it all being strange, but it is still within the norm (IMHO non-scientific but I'm out on the local ocean year-round so I watch the weather closely).
Not up there in Placer county. - Those tracks are on solid granite in most of the steep places, and they are also covered by sheds so the snow cannot build up on the tracks. - Derailments are ultra rare on that stretch.
It's nothing like Missouri either. - Placer gets the heaviest snow fall in North America; that's why the sheds.
It would seem so at a glance, but in reality, with fully mechanized maintenance, problems are rare. - It's an important line that they cannot allow to deteriorate.
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