NWS is forecasting 114 INCHES of snow to fall in 48 hrs near Donner Pass Thu-Sat

“Shouldn’t be living there”

If you've ever wondered how so much snow could accumulate to start glaciers forming, watch the Interstate over Donner Pass this weekend,

I was going to BIG LAKE to fish for some trout. Should I change my plans????

We lived in the old train station retro fitted into condos. Where we were tons of trees and not much space to really put the snow. But they would work there way there eventually. The worst is they shut the interstate down. They have truckers stop two wide and shut down and to are sitting there for a few hours. The storms you know are coming from the news but when you are there they come out of nowhere.

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I just read about the Donner party. Can’t imagine living through that.

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The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, primarily eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation, sickness or extreme cold, but in one case two Native American guides were deliberately killed for this purpose.[1]

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Just imagine what it would be if not for global warming.

If you guys ever get the chance to drive that part of the country, please do it. I drove from Portland -> Reno -> Tahoe. It was absolutely unreal. Absolutely going back there to drive around other parts of Cali / the west coast when I get a chance again.