Breaking I-15 at Cajon Pass

[itsrobert]

May close due to snow

[still_one]

1. What are you talking about? /nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. The snowfall may close the road. nt.

[UndertheOcean]

2. what ?

I don't understand what your post is about.

[Breeze54]

3. Do they have over 7 feet yet?

:shrug:

[UndertheOcean]

4. oh

[Breeze54]

6. Storm wallops area, blamed for 1 death ( 9 FT of snow & 150 mph winds!!)

Storm wallops area, blamed for 1 death

Corona woman dies after being swept into Chino flood channel

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_storm06.2e58fe5.html

01:08 PM PST on Sunday, January 6, 2008

By STEVEN MOORE and RICHARD BROOKS
The Press-Enterprise

VIDEO: Police detail search for woman who died in flood

An intense Pacific storm deluged the Inland area with heavy rain, killing a woman whose pickup was washed into a flood control channel in Chino and stranding a hiker in fog-shrouded San Bernardino Mountains.

The storm, which dumped up to 9 feet of snow and pushed wind gusts of more than 150 mph in the Sierra Nevada, swept into the Inland area late Friday night and poured more than 5 inches of rain onto some areas.

It left up to a quarter-million Central and Southern Californian's without electrical power Friday night and early Saturday. And there were signs that a storm moving in Saturday night could make things worse.

"It's conceivable it could rain up to an inch in the valleys ... and maybe some snow in the mountains," forecaster Brandt Maxwell, of the National Weather Service office in San Diego, said Saturday. "So far, we've only had very light amounts (of snow) reported. Big Bear mostly had rain."

Showers are expected today in the Inland valleys and low desert, with rain and snow predicted for area mountains. Isolated showers are expected for the valleys, desert and mountains on Monday as the storm moves east.

The National Weather Service also issued dense fog warnings for the Inland Empire into this morning.

more...

[Bluebear]

8. Yes oh, many people are in misery and danger

Blizzard conditions have again forced authorities to shut down a nearly 100-mile stretch of I-80 from east of Sacramento across the border into Nevada.

At least three people have been killed in the storms, and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses have been left without power in California, Oregon and Washington.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California declared emergencies in three counties hit hard by the storms, and Gov. Ted Kulongoski of Oregon declared a state of emergency for one county that had severe wind damage.

Gov. Jim Gibbons of Nevada declared an emergency in one county that includes Fernley and the Federal Emergency Management Agency planned to survey the damage on Monday.

On Saturday, a 30-foot section of canal wall collapsed in Fernley, about 30 miles east of Reno, after a day’s rain, unleashing a flood of storm-drainage water into some 500 homes, said Chuck Allen of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The authorities used helicopters and fire trucks to evacuate some 3,500 people as workers attempted to close off the canal, which had spilled about 3 feet of water into a local subdivision.

[ruiner4u]

7. damn al qeida and their snow machine...

[Breeze54]

13. lmao!

:P

[bridgit]

9. are you talking about El Cajon?

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=el+cajon%2C+ca

[Bluebear]

10. No, El Cajon is a town near San Diego. The Cajon pass is a mountain pass NE of LA

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=34%C2%B019.5%E2%80%B2N,+117%C2%B025.7%E2%80%B2W&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=34.637728,-117.416382&spn=2.228013,3.658447&z=8&iwloc=addr

[bridgit]

11. well for crying out loud, the high desert can get very chilly, known to snow & ice up...

the pass won't stay down for long, maybe overnight; i've seen lawn sprinklers snap freeze like an ice sculpture up in that part of the state this isn't so scared

-----> :scared: <-----as it is cold! this storm is playing major cards all over the state no doubt :(

[Nailzberg]

12. Red Alert! We've been cut-off

Donner Party 2008

[soothsayer]

14. "Donner party of 16, Donner party of 15, Donner party of 14, Donner party of...."

[Nailzberg]

15. Well Done! (no Donner pun intended)

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[bridgit]

16. heh-heh, that is phunny...

in that sick & twisted way :)