This is exactly what it was like when my mom and I drove over Donner Pass in the winter of 1943-1944 coming back to California from Pennsylvania after my dad's division got shipped overseas. I was five years old and even though I had seen plenty of snow back east this was like magic.
My brother lives near Yosemite and hasn’t been able to leave his house in over 2 1/2 weeks. It’s going to be another couple weeks at least, providing it doesn’t snow too much more, before he’ll be able to get out of his driveway, and he is only at 4300 feet. We’re hoping that his deck and out buildings don’t collapse in the meantime. We’re keeping our fingers crossed.
I stopped at a rest area one winter, it was night time, and it seemed there was a restroom cut into the side of a mountain. The snow along the road was taller than 18 wheelers. I just thought that was kind of neat but didn’t give it much thought. Then went back a few years later in the summer. There was no mountain. Wide open area with a normal building. It was then I fully appreciated how much snow was there the first time.
In the 2000s me and my wife had a week long ski trip planned for Tahoe. 2 days before we left a massive storm hit that weekend dropping 30+ ft. of snow on an already big snow pack. When we finally made it up there 3 days late it was mind-blowing driving through the mazes but the skiing was incredible.
Hi Suzanne ~ Not to worry. It is decades since they had near this much snow. Even in "the Old Days" it was half, sometimes 2/3 of this. You won't see this for again for a verrrrry long time. Meanwhile, enjoy the Global Warming. And don't believe the News.
I drove through Donner Summit and Mammoth communities at the end of March beginning of April. I believe Mammoth edged out Donner Summit by about 4-5 ft.
Exactly! There is a very good book on that piece of history and if you ever go to Sutter's Fort, they have it there in the their bookstore. Why there? Because that was the destination of the Donner Party and it was from the fort that the rescue party was sent out.
In the middle 70;s I was in the house band for Soda Springs Hotel. I'd lived in Truckee for quite a while. However, the rest of the band was from Texas. With my connections, I found them a house in Serene Lakes. I can't remember the exact year(74 or 75) but it was just like this one. Those poor guys. The snow was half way up the second floor. They had that 1000 mile stare goin'.
What led me to your video was reading about the story of The (In)famous Donner Party, and now having a far deeper appreciation as to how trapped they must have been, especially with wagons and lack of food, a haunting tragedy.
I went to the Alder Creek campsite and it is much lower in elevation. To have the kind of snowfall that trapped the Donner Party that winter must have been just incredible.
It’s already like 20% deeper. It’s to the point where the cuts aren’t as clean through town bc the smaller blowers can’t make it over the edge so it sort of avalanches down and makes the roads more narrow
The real fun comes after thaw when people discover they have not been driving actual roads but snow pack over yards, gardens, cars and other things. Similar snow along Canadian Pacific coast and close to Japans' north Island Hokkaido.
There was Atmospheric Rivers that went from Central California to Southwestern Colorado and also these rivers from Southern California to the Southwestern Colorado in the 2018-2019 winter. It was estimated on the top of the highest peaks of 800inches of snow by the Colorado Highway Department. Spring 2019 people were saying in that area the avalanche threat should be at level . They only go up to level 5. On the train tracks of Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad a Migration brought down a avalanche of 120 FEET DEEP on the tracks. In this area is the notorious Red Mountain Pass Highway. From Ouray to Silverton, Colorado it is 23 or 24 miles. This is the most dangerous paved mountain pass highway in all of Canada and the United States combined. Last winter I found out it's the 10th worst worldwide. Why? 1. Hardly any GUARDRAILS as you can see a portion south of Ouray. Highest avalanche paths per mile in these two countries. Rock slides happen and summer months mud slides. South of Ouray where no GUARDRAILS it drops off to 800 feet down to the river gorge below. There's deer, mountain sheep and goats to avoid too. The highway department set off avalanches on the closed highway by dropping dynamite charges from a helicopter from a WW2 Howitzer shells. But snow kept falling and avalanches came down themselves. They closed down this highway for 17 days. They had two snowplowing/avalanche removal crews working 12 shifts each 24/7 for these 17 days. So that winter had the snow like the Sierra Mountains this season. Here's a news article by the Durango Herald and two UA-cam videos. 1. The story of beautiful scenery, death and life or living in this Red Mountain Pass Highway area and by a state highway department snowplow driver. "Highway to Hell" by The Durango Herald 2. Red Mountain Pass - Extended Closure (720), by the Colorado Department of Transportation At 9:21 snow gushed inside this snowshed 20 feet deep. It's high enough that two semi-trucks trailers can drive through this together. At 9:26 that's 60 FEET deep of avalanche debris. This filled the river gorge to above the road itself in this area. 3. A UA-cam video short "White Knuckle! Red Mountain Pass Colorado, don't take your eyes off the road!" #shorts@wheelinoutwest This is a stretch of the highway 11 miles long. Colorado Highway Department keeps this highway open yearlong except for avalanche removal. There's all kinds of vehicles on this highway. Such as this semi-truck driver that goes by UA-cam channel name of "Riding Shotgun". He driven across this highway both directions. He driven in all kinds of weather in Western United States.
@@arboristcua1962 , sorry there. I didn't prove read what wrote. Those folks said the threat level should have been at level 7 when the state only goes level 5. Far as writing alot, sometimes I just get carried away.
@@cindylewis3325, a westbound train there Washington, perhaps in the Cascades Mountains stopped for night because of a avalanche up ahead. This was around 1910 or something like that. Anyway a avalanche came down in the night when people where sleeping on the train and people were killed. I think there was over 100 people who died. I do remember it is to this day the largest amount of people killed by a avalanche at one time in United States history. This story is probably on Google/Yahoo.
@@JonathanPetramala In Serene Lakes, there's no mail delivery. You have to have a PO Box at the Norden Post office right on Donner Pass Road. We do get UPS deliveries (and our UPS driver is fantastic! If he can get through, he makes his deliveries); FedEx comes from Sparks and it can delay deliveries for days.
@@JonathanPetramala Unfortunately I'm in Sacramento for a few days. Renters are at my place and I hope they were ready for this! It seems they either inadvertently or deliberately disabled my deck camera so I haven't been able to monitor the snowfall today. I left early Monday. My house is an A-frame on Hillside Road between Bluff and Acorn in case you go that direction.
Might be a pain in the butt but I like this and wish we get these massive storms that keep pounding us. We do get big storms but we don't even get what you got through out the winter.
On another video in Mammoth Lakes area, there's snow mounds appeared to be 20 maybe 25 feet high. Okay, snow lover guy being you are from Colorado you very well it has snowed on those 14,000 peaks, Summit County(Breckenridge), and Rocky Mountain National Park yearlong. Beartooth Pass on the state borders of Wyoming and Montana is on record of snowing every month of the year. I'm sure this happens in the higher elevations of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada and Alaska. So that matter isn't new for people who have lived in these areas.
Check the snowpack averages in places like Breck vs Soda Springs. Some passes definitely have impressive snowfall, but how many people live and drive 14k feet up? Literally what is your point?
@@JonathanPetramalaEither you don't understand what I wrote or I didn't expressed myself clearly. Yes Colorado has 14,000 peaks but there's only one road that I'm aware of to that height. It Mt. Evans Byway. This is a road of one way up there and you have to come down the same way up. They closed down this road usually mid to late October and don't have it open up to late May. A person can get out of their vehicle and climb a couple hundred feet to the top. This is highest road in the United States. I don't recall the exact height but I do know this is over 14,000 feet. Now as far as these other places it is in recorded history of snowing there every month of the year. There may go for years like Breckenridge does not snow there like June through October. I don't know how far these states were recorded a snowfall event like in August but it has happened. Also people going backpacking like Colorado, Montana, here in the Sierra Mountains sporting goods stores and town residents tell backpackers or tourists the possibility of snowing overnight. Your earlier statement(should have commented first) about Soda Springs and the Lake Tahoe area, and Mammoth Lakes ALL have more snow than anywhere in the United States and very well the rest of the world. Don't get me wrong I understand what folks dealing with this snowfall and now that heavy wet snow. I heard long ago like Ski Magazine and Skiing Magazine referring to the snowfall in the Sierra Mountains as the "Sierra Cement". Be safe out there especially clearing snow off roofs.
His point is that there are many places just in US, and many, many other places around the world that get way more snow than this and they get it every year. It isn’t world news in these places like it has been for CA this year. The record seasonal snowfall amount for the US is in the northern Cascades, and that record is over twice what Donner has received this year. What the northern Sierras have received this year is an average year in the Cascades. That’s his point.
@@JonathanPetramala, maybe you originally didn't understand me, but "that's water under the bridge". I understand what the people been dealing with this "Sierra Cement" other known as that wet heavy snowfall. I have seen it here in Michigan for decades. It is just I'm your side socially, mentally, that I wish I could be there to help someway either from Lake Tahoe to south to Mammoth Lakes. My heart says I can do this. My mind and/or my body says no way. This inflammatory pain behind both my knees makes my mind to think to cut off my legs above my knees to do away with this inflammatory pain. I'm a poor patient candidate to take Prednisone or other immune suppressive drugs because my immune system is already suppressed and a history of stomach ulcers. Prednisone is harder on a person's stomach than these Arthritis Drugs. Anyway those days skiing when I was in my 20's is a long time ago memory.
We were hoping to go to Royal Gorge to X-Country ski. We have a front wheel drive car. Do you think there's any way we can get there in a couple of weeks or do we have to wait till June? 🙄
@@ellenclary you have to check the roads but I think everything is open,but it can change it’s going to be beautiful up there ,just be prepared there will be more snow ⛄️
I live in Montreal and our winters are the worst weather on the entire planet including both Arctics ! We get a good dose of snow that stays for months and the coldest temperatures on the planet.
@JonathanPetramala Stay safe down there Jonathan. I've logged too many winters as a mailman up here in Canada. I need to retire in Maui! 🏝 Can somebody please do something about the crappy 1.42% exchange rate?
This look’s very desolate to me. Rather frightening. There are no signs of life. It’s not like houses are lit up and inviting. Just dark and cold. No feelings of a warm cozy fire with something cooking in the oven, letting delightful smells waif through the warm house. Just cold dark and deserted. I grew up in Minnesota in the 1960’s where we had snow up to our ears. And bitter cold days walking home from school. It was dark by 4:30 but all the house were lit up and your could smell smoke from fires in the air. No, you can have this, with my deepest sympathies for the destruction this is causing.
“There’s no where that snows like the Sierras”…except for it snows a lot more in the Cascades, in the Canadian Coastal mountains, and in southeast Alaska’s mountains, and probably in the southern Andes, and the Himalayan mountains; I mean except for all those places, there’s nowhere like the Sierras for deep snowfall.
Ah yes, those ranges where so many people live like the Sierra. I am going to be sure to head there to focus on the impacts to a major east/west commerce corridor in the 4th largest economy in the world.
There was that one year in Alberta for got what year to be extract but we had snow 30-40 feet off the ground ppl were stranded for months but the time we got it all moving forward we had what look like a mini ice age rolling down on us
OK climate change fans. How do you explain this? You said the sierras would never have real snow again. You said things would just get hotter and hotter. You said all the glaciers were melting and should be melted by now. You even said the ice pack in the arctic was almost gone.
...give me scorpions, tarantulas, snakes, man eating koalas...ANYTHING but snow. I hate winter. I hate cold. I hate florescent ski jackets and color coordinated snowmobile suits.
This is exactly what it was like when my mom and I drove over Donner Pass in the winter of 1943-1944 coming back to California from Pennsylvania after my dad's division got shipped overseas. I was five years old and even though I had seen plenty of snow back east this was like magic.
It definitely feels otherworldly
Thanks!
Thank you
My brother lives near Yosemite and hasn’t been able to leave his house in over 2 1/2 weeks. It’s going to be another couple weeks at least, providing it doesn’t snow too much more, before he’ll be able to get out of his driveway, and he is only at 4300 feet. We’re hoping that his deck and out buildings don’t collapse in the meantime. We’re keeping our fingers crossed.
Wow! I wish I could get out to him and show that and tell his story
I grew up in Colorado too. Colorado measures their snow in inches 3”-6” whereas The Sierras measure in feet 3’ to 6’ per storm. It’s truly amazing❣
It’s another world
Another amazing video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Wow! It's like a maze!
🐭
I stopped at a rest area one winter, it was night time, and it seemed there was a restroom cut into the side of a mountain. The snow along the road was taller than 18 wheelers. I just thought that was kind of neat but didn’t give it much thought. Then went back a few years later in the summer. There was no mountain. Wide open area with a normal building. It was then I fully appreciated how much snow was there the first time.
In the 2000s me and my wife had a week long ski trip planned for Tahoe. 2 days before we left a massive storm hit that weekend dropping 30+ ft. of snow on an already big snow pack. When we finally made it up there 3 days late it was mind-blowing driving through the mazes but the skiing was incredible.
fantastic videos documenting an epic snow fall year. keep em coming
Thanks, will do!
I am jealous! What a view (from hot Florida 😊).
It’s wild!
I cannot imagine living in this area with that much snow. Crazy
Hi Suzanne ~
Not to worry. It is decades since they had near this much snow.
Even in "the Old Days" it was half, sometimes 2/3 of this. You won't see this for again for a verrrrry long time.
Meanwhile, enjoy the Global Warming. And don't believe the News.
@@michaeldougfir9807 Seen it look atleast close to this alot in the last 15 years.
@@michaeldougfir9807 it sounds as if you dont fully grasp the theory of global warming, oh well.
It just looks magical. So unreal. Amazing.
It is otherworldly
And this is exactly why it’s called Donner Pass 🥶
They would recognize this kind of winter
I know that country well, but now live far away. Your video took me back. Thank you.
Come on out with us :)
I drove through Donner Summit and Mammoth communities at the end of March beginning of April. I believe Mammoth edged out Donner Summit by about 4-5 ft.
They did, Mammoth is a goal of mine to be in one of the 100 inch storms
Now imagine it’s 1846 and you have just ran out of seasoning.
Dude...That's dark. Funny - but dark.
I'm assuming you're referring to the donner party
Nothing but meat is constipating. Thank God tree bark is high in fiber.
Exactly! There is a very good book on that piece of history and if you ever go to Sutter's Fort, they have it there in the their bookstore. Why there? Because that was the destination of the Donner Party and it was from the fort that the rescue party was sent out.
Oh, they'd just go and stay with some of the nice people.
In the middle 70;s I was in the house band for Soda Springs Hotel. I'd lived in Truckee for quite a while. However, the rest of the band was from Texas. With my connections, I found them a house in Serene Lakes. I can't remember the exact year(74 or 75) but it was just like this one. Those poor guys. The snow was half way up the second floor. They had that 1000 mile stare goin'.
Haha I can believenit
Thank you for the video ... I am missing it.
You're welcome 😊
What led me to your video was reading about the story of The (In)famous Donner Party, and now having a far deeper appreciation as to how trapped they must have been, especially with wagons and lack of food, a haunting tragedy.
I went to the Alder Creek campsite and it is much lower in elevation. To have the kind of snowfall that trapped the Donner Party that winter must have been just incredible.
Paradise ... ♡.
Incredible
I want to go to Japan for a big snow storm sometime…I think it’s the only similar experience.
@@JonathanPetramala Yes, I heard Hokkaido island gets a lot.
@@124marsh that sea effect snow has to be crazy
Wow. When this snow melt high water everywhere. Be carefully.
The Fauna must be having a hard time also...if you guys can spare a few " Bales of Hay " would be awsome thanks on part of the " Critters " 👍👍
Deer and goats on top of the snow eating the treetops , predators doing their job as well . Nature has got it worked out by now .😊
It's beautiful. I'm from Southern Cali I've never been here
I definitely recommend a road trip (between storms). It’s a unique experience.
Cool video. Just think how much deeper it will be once this next storm wraps up...
It’s already like 20% deeper. It’s to the point where the cuts aren’t as clean through town bc the smaller blowers can’t make it over the edge so it sort of avalanches down and makes the roads more narrow
Omgosh..how do you know where you are!?
Spend a LOT of time driving around lol
The sun flower 🌸
Snow up to the telephone pole wires!!
It will be wild to see how much higher it will get by next week! I certainly hadn’t seen it that high before
the snow blower does add to the height there i bet.
I don't think I have ever seen snow so deep that it buried power lines...that are still up on the pole
It’s other-worldly
I remember this in New England in the 1990s….it reminds me of the luge.
Good metaphor
Any good places to eat?… to soon?
The real fun comes after thaw when people discover they have not been driving actual roads but snow pack over yards, gardens, cars and other things. Similar snow along Canadian Pacific coast and close to Japans' north Island Hokkaido.
I hope to make it up this summer to see where it is come July
There was Atmospheric Rivers that went from Central California to Southwestern Colorado and also these rivers from Southern California to the Southwestern Colorado in the 2018-2019 winter. It was estimated on the top of the highest peaks of 800inches of snow by the Colorado Highway Department. Spring 2019 people were saying in that area the avalanche threat should be at level . They only go up to level 5. On the train tracks of Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad a Migration brought down a avalanche of 120 FEET DEEP on the tracks. In this area is the notorious Red Mountain Pass Highway. From Ouray to Silverton, Colorado it is 23 or 24 miles. This is the most dangerous paved mountain pass highway in all of Canada and the United States combined. Last winter I found out it's the 10th worst worldwide. Why? 1. Hardly any GUARDRAILS as you can see a portion south of Ouray. Highest avalanche paths per mile in these two countries. Rock slides happen and summer months mud slides. South of Ouray where no GUARDRAILS it drops off to 800 feet down to the river gorge below. There's deer, mountain sheep and goats to avoid too. The highway department set off avalanches on the closed highway by dropping dynamite charges from a helicopter from a WW2 Howitzer shells. But snow kept falling and avalanches came down themselves. They closed down this highway for 17 days. They had two snowplowing/avalanche removal crews working 12 shifts each 24/7 for these 17 days. So that winter had the snow like the Sierra Mountains this season. Here's a news article by the Durango Herald and two UA-cam videos.
1. The story of beautiful scenery, death and life or living in this Red Mountain Pass Highway area and by a state highway department snowplow driver.
"Highway to Hell" by The Durango Herald
2. Red Mountain Pass - Extended Closure (720), by the Colorado Department of Transportation
At 9:21 snow gushed inside this snowshed 20 feet deep. It's high enough that two semi-trucks trailers can drive through this together. At 9:26 that's 60 FEET deep of avalanche debris. This filled the river gorge to above the road itself in this area.
3. A UA-cam video short
"White Knuckle! Red Mountain Pass Colorado, don't take your eyes off the road!" #shorts@wheelinoutwest
This is a stretch of the highway 11 miles long. Colorado Highway Department keeps this highway open yearlong except for avalanche removal. There's all kinds of vehicles on this highway. Such as this semi-truck driver that goes by UA-cam channel name of "Riding Shotgun". He driven across this highway both directions. He driven in all kinds of weather in Western United States.
@@arboristcua1962, Ha! Ha! Ha! Well this person just got carried away in writing my comment. I've done this sometimes before.
Thanks for the interesting info. Didn’t a train get lodged by an avalanche in the 1940s, seem to remember something about it. Tough area indeed.
@@arboristcua1962 , sorry there. I didn't prove read what wrote. Those folks said the threat level should have been at level 7 when the state only goes level 5. Far as writing alot, sometimes I just get carried away.
@@cindylewis3325, a westbound train there Washington, perhaps in the Cascades Mountains stopped for night because of a avalanche up ahead. This was around 1910 or something like that. Anyway a avalanche came down in the night when people where sleeping on the train and people were killed. I think there was over 100 people who died. I do remember it is to this day the largest amount of people killed by a avalanche at one time in United States history. This story is probably on Google/Yahoo.
I love snow but i don't think i want that much. I think snow will be around until july or august up there.
You are probably right. I might try to make it back in July and ski
I enjoy the local folklore there
wheres the footage to DSR/DSI?
I really couldn't live there! I would have to go to Florida for the winter!
Ironically I fly from Florida to this
I'm from Florida, we don't have to deal with this. How do you keep your water and sewer lines from freezing?
Th e air is bearly under freezing...its not really cold
wow
when was the last time you saw drifts that high along the streets? how high are they normally?
They keep getting higher
skiing in July this year!!!
No doubt
Does your mail get delivered or do you have to pick it up in town?
Funny story, just talked with a buddy who is a postal carrier. He says they are all still delivering
@@JonathanPetramala In Serene Lakes, there's no mail delivery. You have to have a PO Box at the Norden Post office right on Donner Pass Road. We do get UPS deliveries (and our UPS driver is fantastic! If he can get through, he makes his deliveries); FedEx comes from Sparks and it can delay deliveries for days.
@@pamgoodley2209 thank you for letting us know! Heading your way in the morning! Wave if you see us through the snow tunnels lol
@@JonathanPetramala Unfortunately I'm in Sacramento for a few days. Renters are at my place and I hope they were ready for this! It seems they either inadvertently or deliberately disabled my deck camera so I haven't been able to monitor the snowfall today. I left early Monday. My house is an A-frame on Hillside Road between Bluff and Acorn in case you go that direction.
@@pamgoodley2209 I will look for it if I can actually see road signs lol
Might be a pain in the butt but I like this and wish we get these massive storms that keep pounding us. We do get big storms but we don't even get what you got through out the winter.
It’s been awhile I imagine
Wonder when it will all melt. Maybe September???
On another video in Mammoth Lakes area, there's snow mounds appeared to be 20 maybe 25 feet high. Okay, snow lover guy being you are from Colorado you very well it has snowed on those 14,000 peaks, Summit County(Breckenridge), and Rocky Mountain National Park yearlong. Beartooth Pass on the state borders of Wyoming and Montana is on record of snowing every month of the year. I'm sure this happens in the higher elevations of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada and Alaska. So that matter isn't new for people who have lived in these areas.
Check the snowpack averages in places like Breck vs Soda Springs. Some passes definitely have impressive snowfall, but how many people live and drive 14k feet up? Literally what is your point?
@@JonathanPetramalaEither you don't understand what I wrote or I didn't expressed myself clearly. Yes Colorado has 14,000 peaks but there's only one road that I'm aware of to that height. It Mt. Evans Byway. This is a road of one way up there and you have to come down the same way up. They closed down this road usually mid to late October and don't have it open up to late May. A person can get out of their vehicle and climb a couple hundred feet to the top. This is highest road in the United States. I don't recall the exact height but I do know this is over 14,000 feet. Now as far as these other places it is in recorded history of snowing there every month of the year. There may go for years like Breckenridge does not snow there like June through October. I don't know how far these states were recorded a snowfall event like in August but it has happened. Also people going backpacking like Colorado, Montana, here in the Sierra Mountains sporting goods stores and town residents tell backpackers or tourists the possibility of snowing overnight. Your earlier statement(should have commented first) about Soda Springs and the Lake Tahoe area, and Mammoth Lakes ALL have more snow than anywhere in the United States and very well the rest of the world. Don't get me wrong I understand what folks dealing with this snowfall and now that heavy wet snow. I heard long ago like Ski Magazine and Skiing Magazine referring to the snowfall in the Sierra Mountains as the "Sierra Cement". Be safe out there especially clearing snow off roofs.
His point is that there are many places just in US, and many, many other places around the world that get way more snow than this and they get it every year. It isn’t world news in these places like it has been for CA this year. The record seasonal snowfall amount for the US is in the northern Cascades, and that record is over twice what Donner has received this year. What the northern Sierras have received this year is an average year in the Cascades.
That’s his point.
@@JonathanPetramala, maybe you originally didn't understand me, but "that's water under the bridge". I understand what the people been dealing with this "Sierra Cement" other known as that wet heavy snowfall. I have seen it here in Michigan for decades. It is just I'm your side socially, mentally, that I wish I could be there to help someway either from Lake Tahoe to south to Mammoth Lakes. My heart says I can do this. My mind and/or my body says no way. This inflammatory pain behind both my knees makes my mind to think to cut off my legs above my knees to do away with this inflammatory pain. I'm a poor patient candidate to take Prednisone or other immune suppressive drugs because my immune system is already suppressed and a history of stomach ulcers. Prednisone is harder on a person's stomach than these Arthritis Drugs. Anyway those days skiing when I was in my 20's is a long time ago memory.
@@bobbywatchaddict523 yeah, no. We are 60+" past average for Mt Baker for a full season and it could snow for two more months....
We live in soda springs you should name the streets so we can tell where we are ❤soda springs has the largest snow fall in the United States fyi ☮️❤️✨
It’s the neighborhood over by the gas station
Thanks 🙏🏽☮️❤️✨
We were hoping to go to Royal Gorge to X-Country ski. We have a front wheel drive car. Do you think there's any way we can get there in a couple of weeks or do we have to wait till June? 🙄
@@ellenclary you have to check the roads but I think everything is open,but it can change it’s going to be beautiful up there ,just be prepared there will be more snow ⛄️
@@ellenclary royal gorge in SE Colorado?
I live in Montreal and our winters are the worst weather on the entire planet including both Arctics ! We get a good dose of snow that stays for months and the coldest temperatures on the planet.
Would you move if you could
That's a lotta, Wotta.
It's like a little glacier....
i think they need taller sticks
Reminds me of Japan it gets like that.
I want to make it out for sea effect snow there
Aomori's snow management techniques are fascinating.
I guess on the plus side, you aren't likely to run off the road?
It’s like bumper bowling
😮
Old Donner party lost it down here,,!🎉
Yep, just down the road!
If you havent been exposed to this much snow and arent used to having snow on the ground all winter....it takes a different mental state, for sure.
Agreed
My friend Andrew sent me this video because he knows #ihatesnow #ihatewinter #ihatebeingcold
Then definitely don’t watch any other video of mine since like November lol 😂
@JonathanPetramala Stay safe down there Jonathan. I've logged too many winters as a mailman up here in Canada. I need to retire in Maui! 🏝 Can somebody please do something about the crappy 1.42% exchange rate?
Snow over the utility wires! Thank you, but no thank you.
Crazy to see for sure
Crowd the side you can see.
This look’s very desolate to me. Rather frightening. There are no signs of life. It’s not like houses are lit up and inviting. Just dark and cold. No feelings of a warm cozy fire with something cooking in the oven, letting delightful smells waif through the warm house.
Just cold dark and deserted.
I grew up in Minnesota in the 1960’s where we had snow up to our ears. And bitter cold days walking home from school. It was dark by 4:30 but all the house were lit up and your could smell smoke from fires in the air.
No, you can have this, with my deepest sympathies for the destruction this is causing.
What destruction? It’s beautiful.
“There’s no where that snows like the Sierras”…except for it snows a lot more in the Cascades, in the Canadian Coastal mountains, and in southeast Alaska’s mountains, and probably in the southern Andes, and the Himalayan mountains; I mean except for all those places, there’s nowhere like the Sierras for deep snowfall.
Ah yes, those ranges where so many people live like the Sierra. I am going to be sure to head there to focus on the impacts to a major east/west commerce corridor in the 4th largest economy in the world.
There was that one year in Alberta for got what year to be extract but we had snow 30-40 feet off the ground ppl were stranded for months but the time we got it all moving forward we had what look like a mini ice age rolling down on us
@@JonathanPetramalalol……gotta love sarcasm……I do anyway…..❤️💫❤️
People ate people in that snow
I'm SO Glad that I'm No longer doing OTR refrigerated trucking, I don't have to deal with this $hit!!!!!
I imagine
Believe I would get claustrophobic driving through that rat maze...
It’s only gotten bigger too 🤯
@@JonathanPetramala - Do you have any idea how long it will take for the snow to melt this summer?
@@billnict1 lot of old timers expect enough snow to ski through June maybe July
Must be that global warning that caused this to happen!
Ah, Californians and Texans: everything bigger and better in their states. Just ask them.
OK climate change fans. How do you explain this? You said the sierras would never have real snow again. You said things would just get hotter and hotter. You said all the glaciers were melting and should be melted by now. You even said the ice pack in the arctic was almost gone.
A science fan eh?
...give me scorpions, tarantulas, snakes, man eating koalas...ANYTHING but snow.
I hate winter. I hate cold. I hate florescent ski jackets and color coordinated snowmobile suits.
HORRIBLE TIME TO WINTER SNOW
Claustrophobic!
This must be caused by burning natural fuels.
How horrid!
No wonder the deer go down hill in the winter...
2 inches in the uk and its game over whole country comes to a stand still
Haha I get it
Thanks!
Thank you!
Incredible