This was about how deep it was wading into Abrams Lake Mobile Home Park today. My son and I were trying to reach his mother-in-law who had been without heat and water for two days. No one had plowed and blow-downs blocked the roads anyway so we had to hike. Management was nowhere to be seen and we both wondered how many seniors were stuck in cold mobile homes with nothing to eat or drink.
Sally and I had driven to his home on North Old Stage Road near Black Butte where the snow accumulation was severe. Since he had a backup generator to provide heat and other essentials the main problem was getting out. He had been snowbound until we arrived to help free his 4WD pickup and while we drove north to Weed where you could still buy gas and groceries (nothing was available in Mt. Shasta) Pete plowed into the park in his jacked-up Dodge Ram and carried her to safety.
We returned with jugs of water, food, and a can of gasoline for the generator and snowblower and we invited all three of them to come over tomorrow (here in Lake Shastina) for showers and warmth.
Frank Christina explained it well: the moist storms rush up the Sacramento River Canyon and the water vapor condenses into rain and snow the higher it gets. By the time it reaches Mt. Shasta most of the precip has dropped out and Shastina is in the rain shadow.
I think I have shared these numbers before but from memory: precip in annual inches for Dunsmuir = 56, Mt. Shasta 36, Weed 28, and Shastina 16. I'm probably off and interested parties should call Frank but the picture is clear; we may have wind and lose power now and then but thank god we don't have what Mt. Shasta and Weed get.
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