Prisoner of the Weather

[kevin_standlee]

I can't go home today because it's snowing heavily with chain restrictions over Donner Summit. Even if I had tire chains for the Rolling Stone, which I do not, I would rather not chance the trip over the top, particularly with the steering stabilizer out of service.

My plan had been to go home tomorrow, but the revised weather forecast now seems to project snow all day tomorrow as well. That complicates things because we need to be in El Dorado Hills on Sunday night as we're going to a wedding on Monday morning in Placerville. While the weather on Sunday and Monday is supposed to be okay, it puts Lisa and me on opposite sides of the mountains. Lisa may have to drive down from Fernley in the Small Orange Pickup (which is has 4WD and snow tires if necessary), carrying my suit and other sundry items, with us convoying back. We'll discuss the situation tonight and tomorrow based on the latest weather.

I'm not complaining about the weather. We desperately need the rain and snow, lots of it, and even with a very wet winter we'll probably still be facing water restrictions next year as I don't foresee there being enough rainfall to refill the aquifers in a single winter; however, it is personally inconvenient when you need to cross the Sierra crest five times in eight days right around Christmas.

Comments

[timill]

Pesky weather - never behaving when you want it to.

Also, thanks for the card, which arrived today. I don't think we'll be sending any this year.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

We've been sending out fewer and fewer ourselves, partially because we've been poor about keeping up to date with mailing addresses. Also, we meant to write another holiday letter this year, which I'm sure could fill four pages, but the time between SMOFCon and the when such a letter would have to be written proved to be too short.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

There's been enough rain that the Bay Area, North Coast, Sacramento Valley, and all the northern Sierras west of the crest have been reclassified from "Exceptional" drought to "Extreme". It's a start, though actually "Extreme" sounds worse.

[a-cubed.livejournal.com]

Bad English. Extreme drought should mean (effectively - I'll give them a small margin of error) no rain at all That's the oly "extreme" available for rain - you can't have negative rainfall, but there's not actual limit on the upper amount of rainfall, really, so there isn't an upper "extreme", So, extreme should be worse than "exceptional".

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I think what happened is, they had a three-fold classification of "moderate", "severe", and "extreme", thinking that covered the gamut. Then it got worse and they needed a classification beyond what they'd called "extreme", so "exceptional" was the best term they could come up with.