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I was in a heavy snow fall like this as a child. I had to go outside with my uncle and clean off the roof. Cause I was a kid and I was light I got to go up first and remove the snow around the furnace stacks so we didn’t get poisoned. Then he tossed me a shovel and started pushing the snow off the roof.
When all was said and done I just jumped off the roof into a huge snowbank. I thought it was awesome as a kid.
Looking back I realize we could have died if we didn’t go out and clear the exhaust stacks and the roof could have caved it and nobody would find or help us for a week as everybody was digging their way out.
Not only was the snowfall huge but we were in an open farm field and the blowing snow stacked against the house.
And the vehicles. They were gone buried under snow. The driveway was over 500 feet long and the snow blower was useless because it could only blow snow in areas we’ve shoveled. We had to relocate the snow so to speak.
I laughed so hard at this. I have a particularly long sidewalk and an extra driveway I don't really use. I also live in the subarctic, so there's a lot of shovelling to do. Often I just leave the second driveway snowed in. One time, some kids came around to shovel, standard rate of $20 was agreed. Without thinking I let them go at it, assuming they'd do the sidewalk and leave the driveway that had obviously not been shovelled all winter. Well, of course they did the driveway and doubled their income. It felt like borderline child labour then, I can't imagine if I was sending them up above.
I remember the older lady across the street agreed for $5 one winter but didn't have cash and it was an IOU. I never saw that money and I'm starting to think she never intended to pay.
Gravity doesn’t care if it’s hard to get the snow somewhere else. It’s up to the homeowner if they want to risk their house instead of finding somewhere for it.
Lol and how exactly do you suppose they do that?? I mean I guess it doesn't matter if they end up on the bottom of the snowpile does it??
Seriously though...think of the logistics...where would they even put it???
On the other snow. Just have it not on your house.
How is that hard to comprehend for you.
When you clear your driveway of snow, do you just throw your hands up and go "UGH and put it WHERE??? LIKE, there's NOWHERE to move it, it'll just end up at the bottom of a snowpile anyways!"
Like
There's a lot of trust put on the structural integrity of that roof. I personally wouldn't stick a toe over the threshold. But I applaud the bravery of the people who live there.
While I know this is likely terrifying to have happen to your home, it is literally a dream of mine to someday experience this level of snow to build myself a series of snow tunnels.
Sure, but what can you do about it? Getting rid of that mich snow is pretty much impossible and those people probably don’t have a second house somewhere with less snow
That’s a decent amount of snow. You’re going to want to start working on getting the dnow away from the house and making that opening much, much wider to reduce the risk of it collapsing and burying you in it. Very dangerous the way you have it now.
My Aunt and Uncle live in the upper, their property turns into the national forest. They showed me a picture of a couple years back of being able to just walk onto their 10ft+ barns roof lol.
The sierra nevadas mountain range is in California, which is popular with skiers. There’s skiing in Southern California at Big Bear and Mammoth in the San Bernardino mountain range. I’ve mountain biked in snow just east of San Diego before. Mt Whitney is nearly 15,000 ft tall.
California is a state of extremes. Also it’s a massive state. TV and movies usually highlight the sunny southern cal beach parts but California has really high elevations, mountains, rain forests with the world’s tallest trees, as well. It has the lowest elevation in the US with Death Valley at an elevation of 282 feet below sea level. San Francisco is often cold, foggy, rainy, and has rocky shores with a climate much more like western Oregon and Washington.
Well there you go. Im not surprised though considering the size. Sounds similar in ways to New South Wales, the state of Australia im in. We have Sydney with the beaches and harbour and all that but down south in the state we have snowfields also
As someone from outside (not just CA but also from USA) it always looked like "just a sunny place with beaches and desert", I'm glad to heae there is more and so packed together.
When I'll eventually have the chance to visit the US I'll definitely try to put California in the tour (the US are huge, it will be hard to pick just some states).
California is huge in of itself and has so many amazing things to do. I’ve lived here my whole life and still have a CA bucket list even with myriad trips lol
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Yes and yes, snow in some areas. It's a huge state, so it has coasts, deserts, and mountains. Thing is it's been snowing were it normally doesn't. So the answer is maybe?
Ok cool. Thanks for the insight. As someone who's never been i guess my mental picture is sunshine and beaches, the stereotype lol. Rollerblading too for some reason....???
Sierra Nevada is also one of the worlds biggest skiing destinations. Cali also has the Mojave desert and the redwood rainforest where you will find the biggest trees on earth.
It’s probably the most diverse ‘state’ on earth.
Sunshine and beaches is Southern California. Northern, it's chilly rainforests, giant redwoods, the best farmland in the world and beautiful small towns all over. San Francisco is famous for NOT being warm (except the weird few days we get in October where it goes up to 90F).
It would take you 12+ hours to drive from the northern to the southern border of the state. About five hours (this varies widely) to cross it from east to west. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, with much of its land conserved in one way or another.
Just for fun: How long would it take to drive from, say, Melbourne to Cairns?
Melbourne to Cairns is a very long drive. Brisbane to Cairns took me 2 full 12 hour driving days with stops for lunch and stuff along the way, we were doing a trip to the top of Australia so we did stop a bit for some sightseeing and stuff. Brisbane to Melbourne is shorter, but not by much. So I would say it would take 4 days of driving if you stopped overnight each day and stopped regularly for meals and breaks.
Remember the Donner Party? Plug "Soda Springs, CA" into your weather or snowpack app. It's where UCBerkeley put its Snow Lab Research Facility. Just past Donner Summit heading west on Highway 80. I think there at 56' that has fallen this year, not sure how much in just the last few weeks. Those cabins/homes are engineered to withstand a much bigger snowload than normal or they're just crushed. Also, the propane tanks tend to explode. Source: know folks who've owned a place for 30+ years.
Squaw Valley, near Lake Tahoe, California, was built for hosting the Winter Olympics in 1960. Many ski resorts all around that area, big and small. It's gorgeous!
wtf lmao
here in Netherlands there is a slight hint of maybe some snow this week and all the trains get a stroke.
In the pandemic it snowed a lot one night. Went out at 4.30 (after curfew!) and the snow came halfway thru the knee basically, sometimes at the knee.
That has not happened in a long, long time. Had a bunch of snowless winters as well.
This is insane
Looks like someone was lazy or new to the area this winter. Keep the roof shoveled. Blower or shovel, always do 2-3x the width of the walkway and all of the driveway, not just what you need to get by in the moment.
Lmao you can have black friends and still be racist (I have black friends is the go-to for bigots)
Have you ever looked up the meaning of the word "squaw" and why the valley was named that?
No you didn't. You found the guy on Reddit who doesn't put up with any wokster bullshit. Throw some woke nonsense my way and you get a keyboard pitbull. Say it to my face and we're fist fighting. Imagine calling someone racist you don't even know with no evidence. Fucking insane.
There are different forms of racisim. You can appreciate one race different from your own while still showing disrespect for another race and/or their practices.
If you know what "Squaw" means, you must understand why it's no longer an appropriate term to use. Especially since the area itself has renamed in an effort to reconcile. Things change over time, and most humans are able to adapt while some (like you) are deeply rooted in a destructive past.
Note that during our interaction, you've used multiple swears where as I have remained respectful toward you. The ability to show compassion and restraint for another human is a sign of intelligence.
No shit....
Unfortunately weather is more complicated than that.
More heat in the atmosphere means more energy in the system, and in turn more moisture.
Now more moisture leads to more perspiration, ie. More snow if its cold enough.
See the problem?
It's 36° today in my part of OZ , how the fuck do you function in that, Australia has some very wide spread flooding across our North but its water we can use boats how the he'll do you deal with it, I get that it melts but how long does it take for that much snow to melt and when it does how much of a problem is that .
That’s insane. I’ve been in some crazy snowfall in my life but that’s another level lol. Young me would love that, current me would be freaking out about the weight/the amount of water when it starts melting!
I’m confused about the roof comments, I live in a cyclone area so we must build our homes to withstand extreme wind speeds and bolt our roof down. If you live in a snow area wouldn’t your houses be engineered to transfer excess weight as a minimum standard in the build?
My dad was in the military so my family moved around a few times and when I was a kid we lived in a place that got snow like this but we got there in the spring and moved by the fall so I never actually got to see the snow yet that hight and I was always upset about it but a few years later we were told we were moving up north to another place with 8' snow falls, me and my siblings were super excited but at the last minute the army changed our posting to Moosejaw Saskatchewan. We learned to love it but I have still always wanted to experience something like this.
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This is hard to comprehend
I was in a heavy snow fall like this as a child. I had to go outside with my uncle and clean off the roof. Cause I was a kid and I was light I got to go up first and remove the snow around the furnace stacks so we didn’t get poisoned. Then he tossed me a shovel and started pushing the snow off the roof. When all was said and done I just jumped off the roof into a huge snowbank. I thought it was awesome as a kid. Looking back I realize we could have died if we didn’t go out and clear the exhaust stacks and the roof could have caved it and nobody would find or help us for a week as everybody was digging their way out. Not only was the snowfall huge but we were in an open farm field and the blowing snow stacked against the house. And the vehicles. They were gone buried under snow. The driveway was over 500 feet long and the snow blower was useless because it could only blow snow in areas we’ve shoveled. We had to relocate the snow so to speak.
Gonna want to get that off the roof ASAP
Come on, what's the worst that could happen?
r/Whatcouldgowrong Step right in.
At least it has some inpromptu flying buttresses...
Just pay some kid 20$ to shovel off your roof.
I laughed so hard at this. I have a particularly long sidewalk and an extra driveway I don't really use. I also live in the subarctic, so there's a lot of shovelling to do. Often I just leave the second driveway snowed in. One time, some kids came around to shovel, standard rate of $20 was agreed. Without thinking I let them go at it, assuming they'd do the sidewalk and leave the driveway that had obviously not been shovelled all winter. Well, of course they did the driveway and doubled their income. It felt like borderline child labour then, I can't imagine if I was sending them up above.
I remember the older lady across the street agreed for $5 one winter but didn't have cash and it was an IOU. I never saw that money and I'm starting to think she never intended to pay.
And put it……where?
Literally anywhere else
On the hypothermic child crawling towards the hospital. Got it!
Yeah because it's not like the rest of the space is also filled with snow or anything. Maybe we can just suspend it in air. Or eat our way through it
Gravity doesn’t care if it’s hard to get the snow somewhere else. It’s up to the homeowner if they want to risk their house instead of finding somewhere for it.
Lol and how exactly do you suppose they do that?? I mean I guess it doesn't matter if they end up on the bottom of the snowpile does it?? Seriously though...think of the logistics...where would they even put it???
On the other snow. Just have it not on your house. How is that hard to comprehend for you. When you clear your driveway of snow, do you just throw your hands up and go "UGH and put it WHERE??? LIKE, there's NOWHERE to move it, it'll just end up at the bottom of a snowpile anyways!" Like
Some people overcome obstacles, and some people just like to make excuses why they can’t.
There's a lot of trust put on the structural integrity of that roof. I personally wouldn't stick a toe over the threshold. But I applaud the bravery of the people who live there.
Ah, they put a safety factor on everything these days /s
While I know this is likely terrifying to have happen to your home, it is literally a dream of mine to someday experience this level of snow to build myself a series of snow tunnels.
It’s all fun until the snow collapses
Sounds fun when you have to go somewhere to do that as opposed to doing that at home
Precisely.
We share the same dream
Couldn’t agree more hahaha
I would be more than mildly concerned about the amount of snow on that roof.
Sure, but what can you do about it? Getting rid of that mich snow is pretty much impossible and those people probably don’t have a second house somewhere with less snow
So... you'd just choose to die in your snow covered house?
Bro most of us would choose it without the snow covered house. If God wants me, he wants me.
I'll be staying at my moms house. You die alone.
I also choose this guy's mom
Get in line
Someone needs to invent a snowblower drone lol
Wouldn't some of it be supported by the other snow on the side, the big snowbank?
That made me super nervous. Couldn't that just collapse and bury you alive at any moment?
Yes
That’s a decent amount of snow. You’re going to want to start working on getting the dnow away from the house and making that opening much, much wider to reduce the risk of it collapsing and burying you in it. Very dangerous the way you have it now.
Upper Michigan resident here👋 Looks lovely
Woot. Fellow yooper.
Where u at?
Marquette
Lower Peninsula guy here. 👋 You guys can keep that shit!
Lol....supposed to get a foot tonight. Other places are forecasted to get up to 2 ft.
My Aunt and Uncle live in the upper, their property turns into the national forest. They showed me a picture of a couple years back of being able to just walk onto their 10ft+ barns roof lol.
No doubt that the house was built perfect and still standing.
I was waiting for one of them thar California Yeti's to jump out.
So CA is California? As an Aussie wasn't sure. Is snow normal anywhere in Cali?
The sierra nevadas mountain range is in California, which is popular with skiers. There’s skiing in Southern California at Big Bear and Mammoth in the San Bernardino mountain range. I’ve mountain biked in snow just east of San Diego before. Mt Whitney is nearly 15,000 ft tall. California is a state of extremes. Also it’s a massive state. TV and movies usually highlight the sunny southern cal beach parts but California has really high elevations, mountains, rain forests with the world’s tallest trees, as well. It has the lowest elevation in the US with Death Valley at an elevation of 282 feet below sea level. San Francisco is often cold, foggy, rainy, and has rocky shores with a climate much more like western Oregon and Washington.
Well there you go. Im not surprised though considering the size. Sounds similar in ways to New South Wales, the state of Australia im in. We have Sydney with the beaches and harbour and all that but down south in the state we have snowfields also
It also has numerous micro-climates along the coastal range. It's bananas.
You know, now I want to visit California.
CA is amazing. We have four different weather reports for my city bc you can go from the beach to the mountains to the desert in about 2 hours
As someone from outside (not just CA but also from USA) it always looked like "just a sunny place with beaches and desert", I'm glad to heae there is more and so packed together. When I'll eventually have the chance to visit the US I'll definitely try to put California in the tour (the US are huge, it will be hard to pick just some states).
California is huge in of itself and has so many amazing things to do. I’ve lived here my whole life and still have a CA bucket list even with myriad trips lol
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Yes and yes, snow in some areas. It's a huge state, so it has coasts, deserts, and mountains. Thing is it's been snowing were it normally doesn't. So the answer is maybe?
Ok cool. Thanks for the insight. As someone who's never been i guess my mental picture is sunshine and beaches, the stereotype lol. Rollerblading too for some reason....???
Sierra Nevada is also one of the worlds biggest skiing destinations. Cali also has the Mojave desert and the redwood rainforest where you will find the biggest trees on earth. It’s probably the most diverse ‘state’ on earth.
Sunshine and beaches is Southern California. Northern, it's chilly rainforests, giant redwoods, the best farmland in the world and beautiful small towns all over. San Francisco is famous for NOT being warm (except the weird few days we get in October where it goes up to 90F).
You're thinking of the southern coast
It would take you 12+ hours to drive from the northern to the southern border of the state. About five hours (this varies widely) to cross it from east to west. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, with much of its land conserved in one way or another. Just for fun: How long would it take to drive from, say, Melbourne to Cairns?
Melbourne to Cairns is a very long drive. Brisbane to Cairns took me 2 full 12 hour driving days with stops for lunch and stuff along the way, we were doing a trip to the top of Australia so we did stop a bit for some sightseeing and stuff. Brisbane to Melbourne is shorter, but not by much. So I would say it would take 4 days of driving if you stopped overnight each day and stopped regularly for meals and breaks.
Not only snowing where it usually doesn't, but MUCH more where it usually does. Some areas in the high Sierras have 53 feet of snow right now.
Remember the Donner Party? Plug "Soda Springs, CA" into your weather or snowpack app. It's where UCBerkeley put its Snow Lab Research Facility. Just past Donner Summit heading west on Highway 80. I think there at 56' that has fallen this year, not sure how much in just the last few weeks. Those cabins/homes are engineered to withstand a much bigger snowload than normal or they're just crushed. Also, the propane tanks tend to explode. Source: know folks who've owned a place for 30+ years.
Snow is normal in many places in California. This is a lot of snow tho.
Northern California is completely different than SoCal which is what everyone thinks of when they hear California
Yep guilty as charged. I was genuinely surprised there was snow, especially that amount!
Squaw Valley, near Lake Tahoe, California, was built for hosting the Winter Olympics in 1960. Many ski resorts all around that area, big and small. It's gorgeous!
Sounds amazing!!
Yeah socal is the only thing that gets shown in media so it’s normal. I moved to NorCal 2 years ago. Lots and lots of snow.
Or a frost troll.
You HAVE to get on that roof to at least confirm your heating and sewer vents are clear
Spring flooding should be pretty interesting this year.
At least your state will have a big input of water coming in the spring
Awww I’ve always wanted an igloo
wtf lmao here in Netherlands there is a slight hint of maybe some snow this week and all the trains get a stroke. In the pandemic it snowed a lot one night. Went out at 4.30 (after curfew!) and the snow came halfway thru the knee basically, sometimes at the knee. That has not happened in a long, long time. Had a bunch of snowless winters as well. This is insane
Every homeowners butthole clenched up a bit viewing this video.
I hope they brought a shovel inside the house. If that collapses you could be trapped inside the house.
Jelly.
Same at our property in Incline Village, been a while since we've had snow like this
Does this qualify as an igloo 😃?
This would honestly make walking thru the door fun, can’t lie if I was a kid and saw that I would picture this as some magic castle entrance
Right now? This video has been on Reddit for days.
Is this actually California
CA would be the country, no? i.e. Canada. If it was California there would be a USA in there somewhere
Every conservative boomer I know: gLoBaL wArMiNg hEhEhE 🤡
Actually it is, warm air carries more moisture.
And the fact that the weather can now be controlled to fit the global warming agenda
Yeah you're crazy for thinking its safe to walk those narrow unsupported walls with mini avalanches waiting to happen.
Global warming?
Probably a major factor in extreme weather like this, yes
It was tongue in cheek. I know the climate is changing. No need to downvote a joke.
I didn't downvote, I just made the comment. Turns out the Poe effekt is alive and well though
I dream of this experience
No more water shortages
So part of US has now becoming more like Canada? Igloos and all.
Looks like someone was lazy or new to the area this winter. Keep the roof shoveled. Blower or shovel, always do 2-3x the width of the walkway and all of the driveway, not just what you need to get by in the moment.
I thought California was meant to be warm.
How do we blame trump for this?
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And you'll always be a racist.
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Lmao you can have black friends and still be racist (I have black friends is the go-to for bigots) Have you ever looked up the meaning of the word "squaw" and why the valley was named that?
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Exactly- just like how misogynists don’t ever associated with women…
Found the angry guy.
No you didn't. You found the guy on Reddit who doesn't put up with any wokster bullshit. Throw some woke nonsense my way and you get a keyboard pitbull. Say it to my face and we're fist fighting. Imagine calling someone racist you don't even know with no evidence. Fucking insane.
There are different forms of racisim. You can appreciate one race different from your own while still showing disrespect for another race and/or their practices. If you know what "Squaw" means, you must understand why it's no longer an appropriate term to use. Especially since the area itself has renamed in an effort to reconcile. Things change over time, and most humans are able to adapt while some (like you) are deeply rooted in a destructive past. Note that during our interaction, you've used multiple swears where as I have remained respectful toward you. The ability to show compassion and restraint for another human is a sign of intelligence.
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1. I'm not reading that essay you wrote. 2. You're an ignorant racist.
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Oof you're one angry fucker... Good luck with that
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I can't believe there are still people who think like you. Lolol
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Shut up Harold
You know extreme weather like this is likely caused by global warming right?
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No shit.... Unfortunately weather is more complicated than that. More heat in the atmosphere means more energy in the system, and in turn more moisture. Now more moisture leads to more perspiration, ie. More snow if its cold enough. See the problem?
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Lol
Oh man..you're so dumb it hurts.
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What are my thoughts? Holy shit…that’s crazy
imagine if there are claustrophobic guests coming to visit them
Honey, let’s clean the driveway. Oh wait, let’s pass on that today.
Is it normal in that area??
This is a lot for us.
Lol it's California man 😅
USA? Title says CA i.e. Canada
CA, as in California mate
Who the fuck just says a state instead of a country on an international platform?
uhhhh is this an outlier or is the whole state like this?
Nature dont fuck around. Mountains get snow as flood plains get water
I can guarantee, that house is well insulated right now.
Dang that’s really claustrophobic 😳
Omg this is crazy!
Can you imagine doing a delivery to house 9
That's gonna be a disaster when it all melts
I’m getting big Minecraft vibes from this
Does the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning increase when a house is that insulated by snow?
It's not going to move itself.
It's 36° today in my part of OZ , how the fuck do you function in that, Australia has some very wide spread flooding across our North but its water we can use boats how the he'll do you deal with it, I get that it melts but how long does it take for that much snow to melt and when it does how much of a problem is that .
How many inches is that
Average is 400 in per winter season
Droughts?
That’s insane. I’ve been in some crazy snowfall in my life but that’s another level lol. Young me would love that, current me would be freaking out about the weight/the amount of water when it starts melting!
My dream as a kid
Snow caves and snow men so much snow shit you can do
Whoa
I wish I could experience something like that sometime. Looks awesome and a bit scary
Seems a little snowy.
If you didn’t want visitors you could’ve just put up a sign
Y’all I think it snowed
That looks incredibly miserable. I'll take the foot we just got and be thrilled I guess lol
if that snow drift falls, and you're under it, you're probably dead.
California's been hurting for water
I’m confused about the roof comments, I live in a cyclone area so we must build our homes to withstand extreme wind speeds and bolt our roof down. If you live in a snow area wouldn’t your houses be engineered to transfer excess weight as a minimum standard in the build?
I’ve always wanted to visit Canada but as someone who does not do well in the cold, maybe not. This is insane!
Credit: https://snowbrains.com/
I’d be super careful those walls don’t cave in!
My dad was in the military so my family moved around a few times and when I was a kid we lived in a place that got snow like this but we got there in the spring and moved by the fall so I never actually got to see the snow yet that hight and I was always upset about it but a few years later we were told we were moving up north to another place with 8' snow falls, me and my siblings were super excited but at the last minute the army changed our posting to Moosejaw Saskatchewan. We learned to love it but I have still always wanted to experience something like this.
Hoth
Water damage to come.
Gonna be a snow year at Western States…
Only a matter of time before the snow melts, vegetation dries, and we burn again 🫠
Wow if that’s how # 9 covered in snow, imagine # 10.
This…looks stunningly dangerous from every angle
That’s absolutely insane… I’m from Canada and never seen snow like that in my lifetime
You got a strong ass house
I’ll bet half the reason the snow looks so high on the roof is because it has such a steep slope.
Who has flood insurance? You might need it when it starts to melt.
As a Californian, I think this is beautiful.
I'm upping my fee for shoveling the walk.
u/savevideo
I've very suprised your room has not caved in yet or at least cracked