WTF? Snow Shuts Down Interstate 5 North of LA
 

We've got some very serioius weather issues in this country. WTF? And read below where Lake Tahoe got 9 feet of snow.


Snow Shuts Down Major California Highway

LOS ANGELES - Heavy snow shut down a major highway north of Los Angeles on Monday and slowed post-holiday travel in the Sierra Nevada as Californians grappled with a second week of stormy weather.

About 2 feet of snow shut down Interstate 5 at Tejon Pass north of Los Angeles, stranding some travelers, and the California Highway Patrol said the state's main north-south highway was expected to stay closed there all day.

At lower elevations in the Los Angeles region, flooding closed the Long Beach Freeway at the Pacific Coast Highway.

Some ski resorts in the Lake Tahoe area reported as much as 9 feet of snow since late last week.

The latest storm is expected to linger through Tuesday, and another storm was approaching from the Pacific and expected to strike later this week.

Weathers all out of wack I think the earth wobbling from the earthquake is just what was needed to throw things out of whack...

wow, I can't believe i'm not in tahoe..

The day after tommorow....

*yawn*

Snow expected in Seattle this weekend... about fuckin time.

Isnt it supposed to be winter in January?

This is crazy! Its 60 degrees here in Michigan today and snow is shutting down freeways in Cali?

Something aint right.

It's January in Western NY and we've gotten under 11 inches for the year.

I FUCKING LOVE IT!

Well its pretty bad for California, i grew up in Malibu my whlole life moved up near Lake Arrowhead, here is a pic of my house and driveway. Even the DHL man could not make it up my street, i have a ton of stuff for the show in Vegas that we could not get today.

http://mikehawkmovies.com/snow/images/3_jpg.jpg

http://mikehawkmovies.com/snow/images/12_jpg.jpg

:thumbsup

it's terrible in cali, this doesn't feel like cali at all

Damn I didn't know the tejon pass ever get any snow, must suck for people going into so cal or out

my thoughts exactly, would love to be snowmobiling up there :sadcrying maybe next snow season ill take a trip out there :thumbsup

damn thats a lot of snow

if any of you have ever driven the grape vine (5) before you would know that it gets shut down alot because of moderate to sever weather.

rain/fog/snow.. it happens all the time because of how high up and how curvey the road is.

Something really strange is goin on right now.

Yes. It is so strange to have major snow in the mountains in January! Someone call the weather police now!

9 feet of snow sounds really scary

9 feet of snow is alot.
We haven't had 9 feet of snow yet but I am sure it will get here before winter ends

Already got my tinfoil hat out and ready to go.

Meanwhile I am living in a snow belt and the grass is fucking green. Get that shit over here so I can get out on my snowmobiles.

Its the end of the world as we know it. The weather get stranger and stranger every year.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...rm_canu802.jpg

Sunny Los Angeles.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

lol, not in Cali though... I can never ever remember having this much rain here in Ca... And it snowed like mad on the way to Vegas today. Unreal an very unusual

9 feet of snow will turn to 15 feet of rain when its melted. Glad I dont have a place on the lake, it will flood when the sun comes out.

ummm.. you might want to check your facts again.. :1orglaugh

Um yeah. Only in Bizzaro World ;)

Rule of thumb is about 8-12" of snow is equivalent to 1" of rain.

this whole weather changing stuff is crazy.

I drove up to McCloud, CA near Mt. Shasta, last Saturday. It is way up north on I-5, fairly close to the Oregon border. My buddies house is at about 3200 feet and when I left, there was about 5 feet of snow at his house. Tahoe definitly got hit harder, but it was awesome up there. :) And he told me that they got about another 2 feet by the next day. :helpme

:1orglaugh

I too cannot remember getting this much rain and snow in such a short period, even in our last El Nino year it didn't get this bad.

It happens EVERY year

yep I seen that on one of the LA News feeds earlier. Crazy shit, I would expect to see that here in Nebraska.

no, 3 inchs of snow is equivalent to 9 inchs of rain

So 9 feet of snow would be around 15 feet of rain if not more

What are you talking about?

You have it backwards.

http://www.weatherwise.org/qr/qry.snowrainequiv.html

dont believe everything you read on the internet

Man I hate to say this, but a big ass rain storm just went over us, and is headed North up the pacific coast.

Which is precisely why I don't believe you.

i got back from Tahoe last night
i have never seen so much snow there.

btw, my parents were stuck on the 5 near LA today for 2+ hours,

That makes no sense at all..
go get some snow, put 3 inches of it in a glass, let it melt, and see if it magically makes more.

You are surely confused, bro. I live up here in Northern Cali, and I can definitly say we didn't have anywhere near 15 feet of rain. :1orglaugh

Meanwhile its 40+ here in Anchorage, AK, all of the snow is melting, the lake I live on is covered with melted ice, crazy!