TSGL: California Snow

[Lee Bunyard]

Thanks H Davis and Cyndi.  We're doing OK here.  I'm actually on the 
western side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, sorta halfway between the 
foothills and the real high mountain country, about 45 miles from South 
Lake Tahoe.  We've only had a couple feet of snow but the 80mph winds 
Friday afternoon and evening were SCARY.  I have a couple of 60 foot 
tall Eucalyptus trees and Monterey Pines behind my back deck that lean 
over the roof of the house.  Wonderful shelter during the hot summer 
months but scary during winter storms, especially major storms like this 
one.  The Eucalyptus in particular were really bending with the wind and 
I had my chainsaw ready to go in case one came down on the house but 
they held.  Several of my neighbors weren't so lucky, had trees fall on 
or against their homes.  I took a 3 mile run thru my development 
yesterday when the rain stopped for a short while and heard nothing but 
chainsaws going as people were clearing out fallen trees and debris.  My 
driveway and area behind the house looks like a war zone, with small 
tree branches and limbs down and scattered everywhere, and the wind 
ripped to shreds the heavy tarp roof covering my horse trailer, must 
have a couple hundred pieces of the tarp blown all over.  My deck has so 
much debris, pine needles, leaves, etc. etc. that it looks like wall to 
wall carpeting, can't see much of the wood decking.  I've had two huge 
oak trees go down over the past year, one totally blocking my driveway 
and the other missing my newly renovated back deck by about 3 feet, so 
I'm very happy to get thru this with no major damage.  And the good news 
is there's over 8 feet of new snow at the ski areas.  I started skiing 
at age 6 (over 50 years ago, Gawd, I can't believe it) at Sierra Ski 
Ranch (which is now called Sierra at Tahoe) and buy a season's pass 
every year so I'm ready to go once the weather clears next week.  Sierra 
Ski Ranch is less than  30 minutes up the road from me so easy to get 
to, altho I actually prefer the skiing at Heavenly Valley when the 
weather is good.  The view of Tahoe from the 10,500 foot summit is 
absolutely AWESOME.  There are a couple more smaller storm fronts coming 
thru today thru Wednesday but all in all, everything is good.  Thanks 
for the concerns.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California

Cyndi wrote:
> Thinking of you, Lee!
>
> ~*~ Cyn~*~
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of H Davis
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:12 PM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: TSGL: California Snow
>
> I haven't heard from Lee Bunyard for a while but, since he used to sign 
> his posts with "Lee in the Mountains of Northern California", I suggest 
> we all send shovels as soon as possible. The last I heard, his area had 
> about 5 feet of snow with another storm coming.
>
> If you're still above the snow Lee, hang on help is on the way :)
>
> H Davis
>
>