'You can't see anything': Blizzard closes most Tahoe ski resorts and Yosemite National Park as winds hit 143 mph
TRUCKEE, Calif. — Jeremy Fuentes and Jarad Baldwin packed up their Ford Explorer and left the San Francisco Bay Area Friday morning as theblizzard in the Sierra Nevada was taking hold. With winds howling andsnow blowing sideways, they hit white-out conditi...
My daughter is at her cabin in Tahoe and Friday she sent me videos of what looked like a white wall. It was snow blowing sideways.
Just think how much worse this would be if we didn't have global warming. 😂
I recall many years ago when Utah got a storm that dropped 70+ inches..
And less years ago when Cars were stuck on I80 in a Northeast Snowstorm...
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/blizzard-california-sierra-nevada-mountains/story
What would you respect? They chose to travel during winter weather. If they die, they deserve a Darwin Award because the weather forecast said that it would be horrible conditions in the mountains.
I checked yesterday said 190mph wind/gust
I have a summer cabin in Kirkwood, the snow is bad enough without the wind. For me I'm hoping it's already buried (typically 50-100 feet above the roof).
Usually the snow doesn't get you, but when the wind hits those huge pines already loaded with snow can snap like matchsticks. Hopefully the winds blowing the right way when it does.
It's going to be an anxious spring waiting for the snow to melt to get in and see how it fared this winter.
I'm really hoping this climate change starts kicking in soon, I'd love to be able to use it more than a few months out of the year. ;-)
I haven't been to Kirkwood in years...
Amazing how show can transfer the pack weight around something like that..
Apparently, due to this storm my family cabin, that I got title to a couple of days ago was destroyed in an avalanche. I just went up yesterday, it moved a three story cabin 20 feet and pitched it up on a tree. Total loss, no insurance, though it's not likely forestry service would allow me to rebuild. Super sucks as I just finally got it to a condition where I could go up and use it and not just fix stuff. Mother nature wins every time.
That is difficult. But most historic structure can be rebuilt.