asp3
Senior Member
- Location
- Silicon Valley, CA
Everyone is probably going to laugh at the snow days I've lived through.
There were two snow days in Dallas, TX when I lived there for six months in 72 & 73. The first was due to an ice storm that coated everything with about 1 1/2 to 2 inches of ice. Then we had a snowstorm that dumped about six inches, but since they didn't' have any snow clearing equipment it closed the schools.
There was actually a snow day here in the San Francisco Bay area in Feb of 76. It snowed three inches overnight and the high school we lived by was closed because it was up a very steep hill and they were concerned about people having accidents on the way up in the morning. I was out of high school already and it was the first day of my scuba class at junior college. We had the class but it was short due to the snow that was still on the ground.
Other than that my worst snow day was one I chose to travel to in the Sierra Nevada. My folks had a mountain house in Bear Valley. They didn't clear the roads so one had to get up to it via snow mobile (if you had one which we didn't) or snow taxi. My wife and one son went up there and took the snow taxi. When we walked in from the road to the house we had do dig down to the front porch which was about eight feet below the edge of the snow in front of the porch. There was about five or six feet of snow on the roof that surrounded the chimney and had to be cleared. We walked up onto the roof (which was easy due to the snow) and started to clear the snow. While we were doing it the snow broke loose from the roof and I went down one side of the roof and they went down another. We all fell about 10 to 15 feet into soft snow so no one was hurt but it was a big surprise for all of us.
The snow at the mountain house would often accumulate to be eight to twenty feet depending on the snow year. However if one had been in the house early enough in the year one could get down to the front porch easily.
There were two snow days in Dallas, TX when I lived there for six months in 72 & 73. The first was due to an ice storm that coated everything with about 1 1/2 to 2 inches of ice. Then we had a snowstorm that dumped about six inches, but since they didn't' have any snow clearing equipment it closed the schools.
There was actually a snow day here in the San Francisco Bay area in Feb of 76. It snowed three inches overnight and the high school we lived by was closed because it was up a very steep hill and they were concerned about people having accidents on the way up in the morning. I was out of high school already and it was the first day of my scuba class at junior college. We had the class but it was short due to the snow that was still on the ground.
Other than that my worst snow day was one I chose to travel to in the Sierra Nevada. My folks had a mountain house in Bear Valley. They didn't clear the roads so one had to get up to it via snow mobile (if you had one which we didn't) or snow taxi. My wife and one son went up there and took the snow taxi. When we walked in from the road to the house we had do dig down to the front porch which was about eight feet below the edge of the snow in front of the porch. There was about five or six feet of snow on the roof that surrounded the chimney and had to be cleared. We walked up onto the roof (which was easy due to the snow) and started to clear the snow. While we were doing it the snow broke loose from the roof and I went down one side of the roof and they went down another. We all fell about 10 to 15 feet into soft snow so no one was hurt but it was a big surprise for all of us.
The snow at the mountain house would often accumulate to be eight to twenty feet depending on the snow year. However if one had been in the house early enough in the year one could get down to the front porch easily.
