Snowmageddon! Sierra update...who else is over it?

[FirstLight]

So we have officially passed the WTF point here.
From my yard to the snow that is now OVER the deck railing...probably 10'. We have no more places to throw the shit. My stairs are now part of a snow sculpture which may or may not actually reflect where the ACTUAL stairs are...

I had to spend a night in town at a hotel night before last, got out and then couldn't get back to my house, much less the driveway..Thank god they gave me a HUGE Local discount and took my doggie too!

This week is supposed to be flurries off & on, and single digit cold...

Will somebody hurry up and tilt us back towards the SUN! I'm ready for some spring... though I can't even get to my grass/garden anyway...

[912gdm]

1. that's pretty much my worst nightmare.

snow that pretty much covers the first floor. not to mention your poor roof.

[FirstLight]

5. I know...I'm hoping we get some sunshine to melt it off soon..

we can't get up there to shovel it off.

The neighbors' house is so buried, the snow from the roof curled over and met with the pile on the ground, it's a full on igloo! (no they are not in the house, they are "part-timers"...which means they get to LEAVE when this shit gets bad!)

My first winter up here I had NO idea what snow was like. We had a 6' night and it covered the windows...I opened the front door to a WALL of snow! Freaked out, my folks lived next door and it took my dad and a neighbor 6 hours to tunnel in to my place...

WTF am I doing here 27 years later? LOL

[Blue_true]

6. Aren't there snow rakes that allow you to avoid having to go up on the roof?

Glad that I live in Florida, but I am buffing up me swimming shoulders, may have to swim to the mountains of Georgia one day if I can't hop a boat.

[SHRED]

2. Good to hear we have a snowpack

What area of the Sierras do you live?

[FirstLight]

3. Meyers, South Shore

Ya...there's plenty...now could someone turn OFF the fucking snowmachine!?

[moonscape]

10. Or at least point it here to the Central Coast - that would be fun! :)

[BigmanPigman]

4. That's what I was thinking too!

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. And here in the south, we are having the warmest winter ever

I hate to say this, but our weather will NEVER be the same again. It is farked up for the rest of our lives and will only get worse.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Snowed this afternoon at our house in Vegas.

Supposed to start in again in about a hour. The last time there was any real measurable snow was 10 years ago and the whole city shut down. Now you folks up Reno way,well get your snokel's out,cause you got more coming.

[Roland99]

14. I remember that. My wife lived in Henderson at the time

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Lived in Southern Utah

at the time. I-15 was closed from Cedar City to the California line for most of the day.

Ten inches of snow along the Utah Nevada line that day. You would have thought the world was ending the way the local's reacted.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Hooray for winter!

Friends in the Kansas City area are bitching nonstop on FB because they've had several nasty snowstorms back to back.

It's weather, folks. And I know that when it changes a bunch as you're reporting, it isn't fun, but it's part of living on a planet like this.

[FirstLight]

11. we're "drought-spoiled"

My kids have had it too good...now they don't know how to shovel properly..

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. Not to mention if you bother to check historic records,

this winter isn't all that bad.

I'm 70 years old. I spent the first 14 years of my life in northern New York State. You want to know about winter? You want to know about snow and really cold temps?

In January of 1969 I went to work for Mohawk Airlines, which was based in Utica, NY. I was hired to be a ticket agent at DCA. In my training class was a woman who'd live her entire life in Syracuse NY, another who'd lived in Rochester, one who'd lived in Binghamton, and two from Long Island. Those last two don't really count because Long Island simply doesn't get significant snow.

During those two training weeks, even the two from Syracuse and Rochester were utterly astonished at the amount of snow they were seeing, and trust me, had they traveled ten miles north they'd have seen a whole lot more snow. Me, I knew what we were seeing was merely typical.

Same with record high temps, record rain, record drought. Most of the time when you pay attention to how it's described, it's things like: The driest summer since (some particular year), or the most rain since (some particular year) and so on. Which is not to say records don't continue to be broken on occasion, but for the most part it has been, in the not very distant past, as cold, as hot, as wet, as dry.

And I'm speaking of someone who has lived in several different parts of this country, so quite frankly, whatever is happening right now probably isn't as extreme as what I've already been through.

[WhiskeyWulf]

12. This guy really captures how I'm feeling right now.

[Brother Buzz]

13. My buddy and his dog got snowed in at his cabin at Donner Pass last week

He's situated, like, spitting distance from the summit, and it's famous for serious snow accumulation. He was having a grand time until his food started running low, but he was able to punch out yesterday and made it home with a pick-up truck full of snow. He built the snowman and everybody had a grand snowball fight.

I'm totally ready for spring. I dream of sitting on the south side of a wooden fence, bathed in warm sunshine. I just want to sit there without a though in my head.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. You would think someone with a place near Donner Pass would stock plenty of food.

I mean jeeze...

Could always have the neighbors over for dinner

[Brother Buzz]

23. LOL, Donner party for two discussed in the emails

I believe he had plenty of sustenance, it was the good "hedonistic" food he was running out of.

[GulfCoast66]

15. 85 today in central Florida...

Which is fucked up. Even my right wing coworkers are starting to say something is not right. Tomorrow will be even hotter.

20 degrees too hot for weeks on end.

I love the heat but not looking forward to this summer.

[FirstLight]

16. og...

I just told my mom today to slap me when I bitch about the heat.....

Climate extremes suck....

[Quixote1818]

17. Parts of the Sierra Nevada are close to 300% of normal

See Here:

https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/webmap/#version=80.2&elements=&networks=!&states=!&counties=!&hucs=&minElevation=&maxElevation=&elementSelectType=all&activeOnly=true&activeForecastPointsOnly=false&hucLabels=false&hucParameterLabels=false&stationLabels=&overlays=&hucOverlays=&mode=data&openSections=dataElement,parameter,date,basin,elements,location,networks&controlsOpen=true&popup=&popupMulti=&base=esriNgwm&displayType=station&basinType=6&dataElement=WTEQ¶meter=PCTMED&frequency=DAILY&duration=I&customDuration=&dayPart=E&year=2019&month=2&day=16&monthPart=E&forecastPubMonth=2&forecastPubDay=1&forecastExceedance=50&seqColor=1&divColor=3&scaleType=D&scaleMin=&scaleMax=&referencePeriodType=POR&referenceBegin=1981&referenceEnd=2010&minimumYears=20&hucAssociations=true&lat=38.786&lon=-119.718&zoom=8.0


Here is one station that is just under 300% https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/reportGenerator/view/customChartReport/daily/575:CA:SNTL%7cid=%22%22%7cname/CurrentWY,CurrentWYEnd/WTEQ::value,WTEQ::median_1981,PREC::value,PREC::average_1981?fitToScreen=false

[NutmegYankee]

19. Meanwhile, Southern New England is bored.

I haven’t started my snow blower since I did the Oct tune up. What we have instead is mixed precip events with a freeze followed by a big warmup. Or in other words it’s mud season again each week. It sucks. The yard is 1 inch of muddy grass on 3 inches of frozen ground.

[akraven]

22. We usually get it in September -

and it doesn't quit till May...…… and there's always that one idiot....