Posted on 11/21/2004 8:29:07 AM PST by granite
I live twenty miles west of Palm Springs, 100 miles North of the Mexican Border. We have eight inches of snow on the ground, no power, no broadband, no satellite. I am on the battery laptop and dialup. The 10 freeway is shut down in the desert due to snow. I am the emergency communications director for this area and we never had anything like this in November. Last year at this time we were on fire.
Photo to follow.
Wow! Stay safe and keep us posted!
Can you ping your list to this?
This might be of interest to your list...
I just surveyed about a 1000' radius and there are 14 major oak and pine limbs down, some across power lines. The CHP scanner is reporting a 1000' snow level and it is still coming down over an inch/hour. There is no one else in sight and the roads are unuseable except 4WD. The plows were caught off-guard because this storm was not forecast and they can not get to the yard to get the plows going.
wow -- what a freakish storm!
How very strange.
I cleaned off the dish and I have broadband back for awhile. My neighbors mobile now has a tree sitting on it. I am going to warm up and go shoot some photos.
THAT is freaky!
Schoolbus stop smashed by tree limb.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot; it is Algores fault.
Stay warm!
I live in Maine, so know what you're going thru. I have my wood stove and kerosene lamps and a hand water pump, for such emergencies - these give me the necessities. One time, before I had the wood stove, and power went out, I kept warm by burning two lamps in the living room, two in kitchen and one in bath, They kept the house a 70-72! (constant high heat from the lamp chimneys.)
Yep! This looks like a giant dose of global warming :o)
Would you like us to send you some of our socialists ???
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Humm forecasts say RAIN. Looks like a band of clouds north ans south right on top of you. Says rain on Monday also. Good Luck man!!!!
I woke up in a tent this AM during a wild thunderstorm 20 miles north of Julian California at the Mataguay Boy Scout camp. It never snows there, but it did this morning. The pouring rain turned to sleet at 6 AM and snow by 7 AM, leaving a few inches in an hour while we tossed our tents and gear into our vans and hauled butt out of there. Pretty wild way to break camp, after the rangers told us we had a half hour before the roads would be impassible. This is at ony about 2500 feet elevation, about 90 miles NE of San Diego.
Looks like it's all north of ya on the NWS radar.......use the orange balls to play yer round of golf tomorrow !
Stay safe .........:O)
Winter sucks, it got down to 66 degrees today! Can't wait till this is over!
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