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Snowed in and Terrified: Trapped California Mountain Residents Plea for Help
Epoch Times ^ | 3/3/23 | Jamie Joseph

Posted on 03/04/2023 6:47:40 PM PST by CFW

The historic storm that swept through California over the last week—prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency March 1—has passed.

But for residents living in San Bernardino Mountain communities, the nightmare has only just begun, as many remain snowed in rationing food, medications, water, and heat.

“I can’t even walk 50 feet because it’s up to my shoulders,” Lake Arrowhead resident Becky Gardner told The Epoch Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; globalwarming; snowstorm
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I've read a little of this storm, but didn't really realize it was so bad for some people. I understand that Governor Newsom is on personal travel leave and out of state.

This article at Epoch Times is "premium" though you can access it if you aren't a frequent visitor to the site as one of your "free articles".

However, much of it is reposted here. https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/snowed-and-terrified-trapped-california-mountain-residents-plea-help

1 posted on 03/04/2023 6:47:40 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

My buddy’s dad bought a place up in mammoth after working as a dentist in Huntington Beach for decades. He was a big skier but his wife couldn’t stand the wind and cold up there. This year it dumped 10 ft from Mammoth to Truckee.


2 posted on 03/04/2023 6:49:59 PM PST by struggle
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To: CFW

Speaking as a former Wyoming resident... only in California would people live in the mountains, and not know how to live in the mountains.


3 posted on 03/04/2023 6:50:35 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: CFW

To hell with California. These are the same bleating fools that believe in global warming. Enjoy the snow.


4 posted on 03/04/2023 6:51:03 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

I’m a current Wyoming resident in this weather has been brutal.


5 posted on 03/04/2023 6:51:43 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: CFW

Who lives in an area like that without more than a week’s worth of food, water, meds & heat? Don’t people plan worst case anymore?


6 posted on 03/04/2023 6:55:27 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: struggle

“ This year it dumped 10 ft from Mammoth to Truckee.”

I drove from Reno to Mammoth yesterday. I can attest to kraptons of snow. Had to drive all the way down to US 6 to get there.


7 posted on 03/04/2023 6:56:22 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Aye; I left just before the storm two weeks ago, threading a route that was windy but avoiding where I-25 was closed to high-profile vehicles (I was in a Uhaul box truck). The next day I got video from my friends of houses being buried by snowdrifts in Casper. You could see the grass on one lawn, the next house over was covered in a snowdrift. I love a lot of things about Wyoming, but I was so ready for this winter to be over.


8 posted on 03/04/2023 6:56:28 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970; wildcard_redneck
Who could have seen this coming in this area?

Lake Tahoe gets an average of 215.4 inches of snowfall, or a little under 18 feet. Upper elevations can get between 300 and 500 inches per year. Winds: Winds are generally mild, 10-15 mph, out of the west and northwest.

9 posted on 03/04/2023 6:56:43 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: struggle

This is in the San Bernardino Mountains - that’s in SoCal, not the high Sierra of Mammoth or Truckee.


10 posted on 03/04/2023 6:57:04 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: EnderWiggin1970; wildcard_redneck

The rest of the country is chattering about “spring” - but the snowy places are battening down the hatches for more snow...


11 posted on 03/04/2023 6:58:10 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: CFW

If they watched Jerimiah Johnson


12 posted on 03/04/2023 6:59:04 PM PST by logitech (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. )
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To: wildcard_redneck

“To hell with California. These are the same bleating fools that believe in global warming. Enjoy the snow.”

I often have the same attitude. But California, was the first state in which the urban cities commandeered the voting machine and starting making the vote results adhere to their wishes. The progressives started their “march through the institutions” in California, then they expanded it from there and are now marching their voting fraud template through other states as well.

There are still many conservatives in rural California who love their rural land and the lifestyle they have built there through generations of hard-work and sacrifice. Not everyone in California is from San Francisco and LA.

Apparently, although they are used to snow storms, this one was bad and even worse than expected. In 1993, our state closed for a week due to 8 inches of the white stuff. I can’t even imagine dealing with 8 feet!


13 posted on 03/04/2023 7:00:15 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: struggle

I got 5 inches of snow and it is
Not to mess with,
5 to 10 Feet would be disastrous!


14 posted on 03/04/2023 7:00:46 PM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: EnderWiggin1970
I have lived in the mountains of California and I'm still amazed at the snowflakes (pun intended) in the mid-west struggling/sniveling when they get less than a foot of snow ON FLAT LAND.

BTW you might want to look where this conservative website originates from.

If you know a better conservative website from your state, let us know.

15 posted on 03/04/2023 7:01:39 PM PST by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for America in one 4yr term than any President in your lifetime)
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To: logitech

Or the movie about the Donner Party.


16 posted on 03/04/2023 7:01:58 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: CFW

👍


17 posted on 03/04/2023 7:02:18 PM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: dsrtsage

US 6 runs into Bishop outta Tonopah, NV.
So, you had to run out to US95, then south to US6 and cut back west before you could make it back up US395 to Mammoth?

Ya do whatever ya gotta, but that’s a heckuva detour.


18 posted on 03/04/2023 7:07:43 PM PST by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: wildcard_redneck
To hell with California. These are the same bleating fools that believe in global warming. Enjoy the snow.

Yes, all Californians are the same.

The ones up in the mountains are just like the ones in the cities just like the ones in the desert just like the ones in the farmland.

All Californians in the cities are all the same.

No Californians deserve any compassion or understanding at any time, ever.

Especially the Californian who owns and operates Free Republic, or FReepers who live in CA and fight back.

19 posted on 03/04/2023 7:09:30 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: struggle

The ski resorts will probably be open year round!


20 posted on 03/04/2023 7:09:45 PM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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