January 7, 2017
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January 6, 2017
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January 6, 2017
By Tony Barboza
Below clear blue skies Friday, ( click here) people in the snow-shrouded ski town of Mammoth Lakes were gleeful that a series of storms on the way to the eastern Sierra Nevada could bring several more feet of snow.
Yet some also worried that the big, wet storm on tap for this weekend — known as an atmospheric river — could dump so much rain and snow that it could shut down some ski runs or roads.
The red marker is Mammoth Lakes, California. The residents of that city are somewhat ready for the storms. The Southeast of the USA should recommend employers to cancel workdays until the region is functional again. The people will not be able to cope and accidents will be many and has the potential to shut down roads. Leave everyone home.
The governments believe they are ready. They aren't ready. They might have plenty of plows and otherwise, but, the people are not used to driving in such harsh conditions. There is every reason for the Southeast to close down for a day or so.
I have been in 6 degree Fahrenheit weather the past three days. I have clothing that protects me when out in the weather. When the local evening news came on there were many, many people in accidents and several dead. These are folks that are used to harsh weather. The wind alone was proving to be far to harsh. There had to be at least 50 to 60 mph winds. There was a tractor trailer picked up and dumped on the side of the road in a gully. How do I know the truck was picked up by the wind? There were not tracks in the snow leading to a truck off the road. There is only one way it happened.
The red marker is Mammoth Lakes, California. The residents of that city are somewhat ready for the storms. The Southeast of the USA should recommend employers to cancel workdays until the region is functional again. The people will not be able to cope and accidents will be many and has the potential to shut down roads. Leave everyone home.The governments believe they are ready. They aren't ready. They might have plenty of plows and otherwise, but, the people are not used to driving in such harsh conditions. There is every reason for the Southeast to close down for a day or so.
I have been in 6 degree Fahrenheit weather the past three days. I have clothing that protects me when out in the weather. When the local evening news came on there were many, many people in accidents and several dead. These are folks that are used to harsh weather. The wind alone was proving to be far to harsh. There had to be at least 50 to 60 mph winds. There was a tractor trailer picked up and dumped on the side of the road in a gully. How do I know the truck was picked up by the wind? There were not tracks in the snow leading to a truck off the road. There is only one way it happened.
In preparation, snowplows were scraping icy roadways. Excavators and snowblower operators stayed busy clearing and moving huge piles of snow. Some cars sat abandoned on the roadside or at gas stations, covered with thick blankets of snow from the most recent storm.
Outside Kittredge Sports, store manager Terry Lucian took advantage of the clear weather to shovel away some of the mounds of snow that had built up outside the entrance....
...“Everybody wants the snow, they just don’t want it while they’re here,” the 39-year Mammoth resident said. “It’ll be a rough couple of days, but we need the water. So it’s going to be OK.”
Some Mammoth locals agreed that the big, warm and wet storm expected starting Saturday might not be the best for skiing because much of it is expected to fall as rain at all but the highest elevations.
“I cannot recall a season that had so much lower elevation rain like we are having,” snow and weather blogger Steve Taylor wrote Friday on MammothSnowman.com. “The good news is there are colder storms now lined up for next week so we my get rain, but the next system should be all snow.”
No one in the USA is ready for this. The aftermath of the storms is very sad. There were so many accidents to talk about on the evening news, there was no time to play the film of children sledding down hills. There is a good chance they decided it was too cold outside to sled anyway.
This is the Climate Crisis and it should be obvious to everyone.
No one in the USA is ready for this. The aftermath of the storms is very sad. There were so many accidents to talk about on the evening news, there was no time to play the film of children sledding down hills. There is a good chance they decided it was too cold outside to sled anyway.
This is the Climate Crisis and it should be obvious to everyone.
