Posted on 11/28/2019 7:41:16 PM PST by Mariner
Which has only happened thousands of times (at least) on this planet.
We have gone through lots of periods of cold, hot, or just odd weather and long periods of predictable same weather year after year but it never lasts. Another cycle comes along to shake us out of depending on the weather to stay the same.
I don't think I have been there, but there is an excessive amount of nothing on the way to Roswell, NM.
So far, the rain they said we were to get has been a flop here in North Phoenix.
Raining in Las Vegas.
This reminds me of the time it snowed in the Grapevine when I was a teen in the 60’s. We lived in Orange County. On that evening Dad said “get in the truck, son”. We went up as far as where the vehicles were pulling over to chain up. I was told to wait in the cab while Dad hoofed it up the line trying to sell an old pair of snow chains he had sitting in the garage. Only took him 10 minutes to make a sale. Great memory for me.
Thought Gore said there would never have snow again after 2015,
Feb 1989 our son (living in Austin at the time) saw his first snow as I pulled over at the top of the Grapevine to let him play in it. Great memory for both of us.
Or giant mudslides. Montecito. 1/9/18
Mammoth lakes and Bridgeport
You can take Rte 41 or 46 to Cholame and then proceed along 41 to 101. Or you could take Rte. 166 through New Cuyama to Santa Maria, where you can pick up 101. You won't encounter snow along either route.
Tehachapi Pass is quite scenic.
I had a season ticket to Big Bear last season and never had a problem with any delays. I go up from I-10 thru Desert Hot Springs and then north through the desert.
My secret? I only ski on weekdays and only after they have had at least a day to clean up a snowy mess. I wouldn't even think about going up there on a weekend or holiday.
I think it's neat to go ski for a half day, drive down the mountain and then go walk the dog in shorts before sunset.
I haven't seen one comment about heavy snow down here in November. This is Jan/Feb type weather. But with the Grand Solar Minimum, it's pretty obvious that it is the sun that controls the Earth's climate, not the alarmists CO2.
I usually take I-15 to Old Rte.66 in Victorville, then turn off on Air Expressway Blvd. to pick up 395 and avoid the Adelanto red light district--a stretch of the highway with numerous stop lights that you almost always hit when they turn red. If I arrive there in the morning, I usually eat breakfast at Emma Jean's Hollandburger Cafe on old Rte.66 just before the Air Expressway turnoff.
We stayed at the Holiday Inn in Tehachapi on Tuesday night.Woke up heavy snow yesterday morning. Was only raining within 10 miles. Continued to Sacramento up Highway 99 with no weather whatsoever.
See my #54
When I was at the Naval Training Center in Dago in 1968 we had snow at muster one fine morning. Weird. LA maybe, but Dago?
And old folks who ride trains do like their scenery.
AMTRAK must have gotten kickbacks from the airlines for devising routes and schedules that made train travel less competitive and much less enjoyable than it once was.
Uh huh...Tell me, if 330 is not bumper to bumper all the way up the hill during snows, why in tarnation would anyone go all the way around through Yucca Valley and all the way around to highway 18 in the desert, taking twice as long to get to BB? And then you admit you avoid going up on weekends? I know why!☺
Btw, I've lived in BB and had a second home there at one time. Sold it because the place is an overcrowded zoo. Look, ya got 20+ million people at the base of the mountain nowadays...That's why the place resembles a freaking over crowed amusement park on snow weekends, holidays/events etc...I recall in summer the idiots shut down parts of the main highway through town for the GD bicycle crowd. They said to hell with the people who live there, and they just shut down the roads to the spandex crowd....And don't forget to buy your, "adventure pass" to simply walk through the forest. Just like an amusement park. I could easily go on...
Btw, I've heard that nonsense before...No one drives 4+ hour round trip in extreme freeway traffic, waits hours in all the lines to do the ski thing, and then drives back through hellish traffic and still be in the mood to walk the doggy...lol...No sale...get real.
Weather was seldom a problem, but traffic nearly always was on 101, especially on weekends during racing season at Del Mar.
One time, on the way home, we did have some unusual weather: a waterspout had formed during a thunderstorm, and it went ashore at Oceanside and tore up a car dealership.
We had just been through there, in the rain, a few minutes earlier and missed all the excitement.
Despite the occasional bad weather, earthquakes, fires, mudslides and desert winds, California could still be a good place to live if only the idiot politicians would lay off with the tax increases, regulations and anti-business attitude that's turned the state into a socialist dreamland.
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