It’s rad on some of the shots field level where you can barely see the players. Of course, @Knave probably couldn’t see more than 10’ out his window, if the snow hasn’t already piled up higher than his windows.
If it hadn’t been 60F the day before, and heat under the pitch, it would have been close. I got 6-8” at my place in the mtn benches. Wet & heavy 4” on the field.
Looks like I-80 just reopened (with chain controls still) - I can't remember it being closed for two and a half days continuously before this. During previous storms there would be enough of a break in the snow that they could run the plows through and let cars go through for an hour or two.
I can remember storms when it was shut down for an extended time like the last few days. Indeed, I remember worse when 80 was closed in both directions out of Truckee -- and so were 89 and 267. During this storm, 89 stayed open, but 276 did close for a while. That said, there seems to have been a shift in how Caltrans operates on 80 in recent years. Basically, they don't reopen the road as readily as they used to. Which makes sense, because whenever they reopen in adverse conditions, cars get stuck or cause accidents, and that just slows down snow removal operations. Better to keep cars off the road and the plows on it. For this storm, it appears there was also an unusual circumstance, namely that more than 2/3 of the Caltrans blowers were knocked out of commission with breakdowns. The question that's unanswered is why they had so many breakdowns. 1764400347685191922 is not a valid tweet id
I watched a youtube video last night on Donner Pass and it was crazy. They would get a vehicle unstuck, only to have the same vehicle get stuck again a short bit down the road, which they'd pull out, only to have it stick again, etc, etc.
Yep, it's just like in the old wagon train days! Anyway, haven't left my house since Thursday. Venturing out this afternoon to go to the hardware to get parts to do a little modification to my snowblower.
A lot of these YIMBYS are from California and California is the representative Blue State, so they use CA as a measuring stick for everything, so they get picked on a lot, I bet for example that Illinois would also look bad in this comparison. "In April, not only did the Dallas metro area (pop: 8.1M) permit more new housing than the entire state of California (pop: 39M) but they permitted more multifamily housing than California too" In April, not only did the Dallas metro area (pop: 8.1M) permit more new housing than the entire state of California (pop: 39M) but they permitted more multifamily housing than California tooIt’s a total indictment of California housing policy that these numbers are even close pic.twitter.com/ljV36daPsf— Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 (@JosephPolitano) May 25, 2024
CA does have a housing shortage. That’s not debatable. But yeah, these hot take tweets are dishonest. CA’s population has decreased since 2020. Dallas has grown a lot. There is more incremental demand in Dallas, so we would expect to see more new housing (incremental) supply. They’ll also argue that people are moving to TX for low taxes completely ignoring 1) that the states boomed at different times 2) CA has accumulated more deferred expenses due to the timing differences of their booms and 3) property taxes are now soaring in TX because they are far enough along in their boom to start seeing the back end govt expenditures that come with that.
California’s population may have decreased but that doesn’t change the fact that there is a desperate housing shortage here and doesn’t actually support the point you are trying to make regarding trends of building housing.
Not only have I not experienced either one of those we have the I B Forum, the Southern and Western most sports bar in the US of A!