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Snowmageddon!!!

NurseDave said:
While not exclusive to LV, having those fancy fountains shooting water up into 115-degree air isn't a good visual for sure.
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Even with that incredible waste....we still save more than we promised to. And besides......the casinos aren't paying for the extra high water bill....the tourist are. (seriously, I have a friend that works in engineering at one of the hotels....he says they have three guys that maintain the systems for recycling their grey water for the many water features on property. Its not water you'd want to drink but it isn't fresh, single use water either.)
 
heysi said:
Even with that incredible waste....we still save more than we promised to. And besides......the casinos aren't paying for the extra high water bill....the tourist are. (seriously, I have a friend that works in engineering at one of the hotels....he says they have three guys that maintain the systems for recycling their grey water for the many water features on property. Its not water you'd want to drink but it isn't fresh, single use water either.)
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I hear ya, but the realist in me would say they could save even more without them. I'd say any area that needs to pull water from some other water shed area doesn't get to have any golf courses, fountains, high water use industry, etc. I planted a new sod lawn and then the next year they went into that massive drought conservation and it died away. If I can replant with low/non water needing landscape, so can everywhere else.

Could you hear the old man grumble in that?
 
heysi said:
As someone that lives only 15 minutes from Lake Mead (and our entire city depends on that lake), it should be noted that southern nevada saves more water than the agreed upon amount in the Colorado River Compact. Other states (such as California, Utah and yes....even Arizona) consistantly use more water than they should......and yet....someone always says we're stealing their water. Any amount of snow that can eventually end up in Lake Mead is welcome.
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Ya true for Arizona… Mining and Agriculture are sooo over rated 😂
 
NurseDave said:
Getting news reports from my dad in Portland. Most snowfall since 1943. Snow on the beach in Oregon. Of course, traffic is stopped and a hot mess in a city not ready for snow surrounded by hills and bridges.
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News report said this was the biggest single storm since 1908! For the valley I live in.
 
Meanwhile in the East Coast….Mine This!

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Just let us know when you resource wasters - as we on the East Coast affectionately know as “that’s what people get for living in a desert” are done fighting….in the meantime, I need to check out our agricultural boom - please note the picture of members of the Hershey Milk Union - busy at work…

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Sorry - forgot this thread was about snow….here is a picture of a typical snow day for East Coasters

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So much snow that the plow is literally stuck causing a traffic jam

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Stay safe everyone! Us East Coasters may do a little ribbing, but I can personally say the snow has left us on our knees more than once. It’s all relative. I was out in shorts and a T shirt yesterday. In February. Unheard of.
 
We rarely get snow where I live, even when the temps drop and moisture is present. I live in a "shadow" of sorts where the mountains to my south kind of direct rain and snow over or around us. The open desert to the north of us usually gets more "weather" than we do as a result of this mountain shadow. This time however we DID get snow as promised and it even stuck around a bit. Last week we got about 8 inches of accumulation at and around my house (which meant more accumulation in areas not in the shadow of the mountain). Our infrastructure is VERY ill-equipped for snow and/or long term rain...and we had both. With several waves of storm coming through we ended up with cars AND emergency vehicles getting stuck. We even had a 6x6 fire truck get stuck in snow on a dirt road that had washed out, fortunately the local jeep recovery crew was able to pull it out of the wash on to its wheels again.

When the weather and roads were bad I just worked from home, but I we DID have to travel down the mountain pass a couple days for medical services that are only available "down the hill". Fortunately we were able to time the trips so we were down and back during lulls in the storm. Unfortunately many of the residence of the local mountains who work off the mountain found themselves stuck off the mountain away from home for days while they flat out shut down all roads leading to the mountains because the snow was so bad in the mountains. On the days where the snow wasn't falling they did what they could to get visiting flat landers off the mountain (there were several bus loads of school kids stuck over night early in the game) and to let those stuck off the mountain back up.

Fast forward to now, after more than a week of snowing the snow has swallowed homes in 7 feet or more of snow. Grocery stores have run empty but the national guard was working on getting truckloads of food up to parts of the mountain and dropping food in others. Sadly, the only grocery store in Crestline (a mountain community about 20 miles from me that sits at about 5000 elevation) had its roof collapse yesterday under the weight of the snow. Interestingly homes all over the mountain started exploding yesterday too, apparently when the gas meters get berried deep in snow it allows gas to accumulate around the meter and ignite. Fortunately the people who live full time in the mountains know this and make an effort to keep the meters dug out and will dig out the meters of neighbors who are not home as well. So far the homes that have exploded in flames have all been "vacation" homes or otherwise unoccupied. Pretty insane stuff.
 
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