Snow, A Response

I got a response from a friend of Yuki's via Yuki.

A friend from NY wrote:

Call that snow? Hmmm.... a dusting.

A dusting, true, but remember we are in a severe drought year. This is only the second snow of the season when we usually get 8 or 9 a year. The first one was on December 7th (note that was Pearl Harbor Day) and we got 7 1/2 inches.

Yesterday

Those of us out here in Northern California are proud of what we call Sierra Cement. It feeds all those reservoirs and allows us to fish 12 months a year.

So I thought, as a kind of rebuttal, I'd post a couple of pictures from years past. Enjoy.

5-31-2006

In the one below we got 5 1/2 inches. Not a lot, but enough to screw up the satellite dish. 

3/31/2010

 On 2-23-2011 we got 8 inches. Not the most, but a healthy dose.

2-23-2011

May 15, 2011 we only ended up with 3 inches this time.

5-15-2011

February 20, 2013 we had 6 inches. Still not a lot.

2-20-2013

But on March 11, 2006 a year and a half after moving up here we got this storm. By the time it was all said and done, we had 24 inches on the ground. I made a run over to Pine Grove for a few supplies Saturday morning and was pushing snow over the hood of my Chevy pickup. That was a lot of snow.

3-11-2006

So yes, we got dusted yesterday and again this morning, but we're holding on to every flake. They did a snow survey yesterday and the Central Sierra is 34% of normal for this time of the year. Going to be some dismal fishing this summer. Might have to take up chasing Bass just for something to write about.  

Stay tuned.