Record Sierra Snowfall Brings Flash Floods and PCT Trail Closures 

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Your channel is so informative and interesting. I'm so glad I discovered it. Keep up the great work 🏆

Here in Mammoth, we haven't been able to see out of our first-floor windows since December. Even once the snow melts (July? August?), the trails are going to be a complete mess. There aren't enough trail workers on earth to get the PCT hikable this year. Sorry for the thru-hikers.

Excellent reporting, Jonathan, as always. Thank you!

Fantastic video and interview. Thank you. Beautiful country and super resilient residents. Keeping everyone in our thoughts. Greetings from Western Pennsylvania.

First time watching your channel and seriously impressed. Your pauses are perfect, content is spot on, great job, interviewing, and solid drone work. Definitely subscribed and definitely watching more!

Love your attitude and smile and plants! 🌱 ❤

So glad I found your channel!!! LOVE your stuff!!! Can’t wait for the documentary of the entire snow season that I hope you put together!!!!

Such great personal and informative posts....also done with a happy attitude....it takes the news programs and makes them so real, and how real people are experiencing it all....Thank you...keep them coming please

going to be an epic year to conquer the PCT I'm stoked!

So crazy, I was keeping up with all your crazy weather a few weeks ago. Binged some of your videos. Today, I thought about it and was like, _”it’s springtime! They’ve_ *GOTTA* _be melted out by now!”_ So I look up some current news.. see some concerning headlines thinking _oh no.._ check your channel and lo and behold 😭😭😭 I see some people have posted videos up there from just nine hours ago… of yet another storm that came through.. Y’all are so resilient! *WINTER IS ALMOST OVER!* Keep reminding yourselves 😩 lol I’d be beyond over it crying. Sending you all love. Thanks for posting these to show people like me, in the desert, what life is like up in the Sierras lol. Originally from Chicago, IL (lived there for 25 years) but we never saw nothinnnn like this 😅 and I know how difficult just _a few_ feet of snow can be 😭 I cannot evennnn imagine this!

Another interesting story. I totally forgot about the PCT and the people that make the journey. I can only imagine.

Great job. I do volunteer PCT maintenance in the WA. Cascades. Last year I couldn't get out on my section until July 1, the latest in 9 years of work. This year looks more normal up here (not so for CA.)

They need a heating system in the storm drains to prevent blockages and subsequent flooding. But getting local councils and their members to spend some money on innovative solutions is probably too much to hope for. Good luck to anyone who is in danger of being flooded or from bushfires. It is a very stressful situation to experience. Peace and love from Northern NSW Australia. 💜💙

Really loving yours and Brandon's coverage of this. Being from the South this whole situation has just blown my mind.

Hoping the best for these people. It's pretty extreme what they're facing, and yet they're doing it with a smile.

I lived in Tahoe in winter of 73-74 and had a cross country snow mobile business. I bought it from a guy who moved on and he told me I would pay for the business in 2 weeks at Christmas. Well that Christmas we had NO SNOW at all and it didn't start snowing until Jan 6th. Wow...about broke my little business but we made it. Stopped snowing in MAY...LOL. Good Luck to all in the Sierra's...miss it. Lived in RENO for 22 years. Now PACNW.

Saw one of videos on Fox Weather on YT. I don't think I could live there at least not all the time and this winter for sure. I would say it takes a special kind person to live in those conditions.

Very good video. As a past PCT hiker with a permit for this year it hit home.

Absolutely amazing! Great reporting Jonathan…please keep it coming and thank you for your work!!!

This winter and summr pictures would be nice.

I feel bad for the PcT thru hikers. That's painful to see them so early in the hiking season realizing there are insurmountable obstacles that can't be overcome. Sad..

I live in Texas, where we have very little snow. When a few snow flakes fall, I run outside with my camera. I can't imagine what it is like to live in this much snow. We do have tornadoes.

Government does NOT want to leave any ROOM for FLOODING. If all the lakes, rivers, and streams dried up people would build houses in them and then be mad if the water came back.

You have a great attitude. God bless you!

Thanks for the information.

Could strong winter window shutters prevent some problems? Maybe not all just the ones you know will get covered.

From Russia with love

⚠@ 3:30 you can install laminated glass, like bulletproof glass to solve your breakage problem.

correction: "2023 said HOLD MY BEER." lol

The amount of Snow 😮

Incredible scenes there. The GSM is starting to affect the weather.

Dang.. you're good 👍👍👍

Phenomenal job

I know all these places. I miss California.

Drought, floods, fire and big snow events have been part of California's environment for thousands of years. None of which are reason for panic. People who claim a need to "stop" climate change are vacuous and irrational. The climate is functioning normally. There is no climate emergency.

An expert hydrologist recently noted that rain on snow is 80% absorbed by the snow 20% melts snow, if I understood correctly. No doubt that must vary.

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Nice work. You will have a million subs.

through hikers --- the journey has intersected with global vectors and it's all disappointment. Best hike ever, I say.

Aim High 🙏🏼

Spring is here and the huge melting and flooding is coming. I know people in Mammoth Lakes that installed french drains around their places in the past to get the water and flooding away from melting snow. There will be lots of water damage and flooding in Mammoth with damaged and destroyed roofs.. There will be no where for the huge flows of water to go. Every low area will become a pool or lake without a place to go. All the creeks and steams are blocked with heavy snow and ice. Hoping there is no or very little damage from the heavy plied up snow and a rapid melting in the area. All that water is on it's way to the hot creek and Crowley lake.

Great content .👍🏼🧂🧂🇺🇸

Put the bloody powerlines underground!!!!

Good report.

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I imagine lack of ground cover due to the fires would really exacerbate it

Bring down the outdoor boys from alsaka they will show you how to have fun in all that snow!

One wonders how the roads may fare, for the Donner Pass Region communities featured here. Yes, there were some periods that were ultra-cold, especially during the storms that lowered the snowline to the vicinity of Rocklin on the I-80, but those particular events probably weren't of long enough duration to foster the creation of permafrost. If an event such as that occurred, there would be no subtlety to the frost's attack upon pavement and its ballast. Yet, with the way this Winter's assault is shaping up to be, when the Spring-Summer melt-to-dryout happens, entire paved roads, neighborhoods of streets, could crumble, disintegrate, to muddy, then gravelly and dusty flinders that could suddenly require the use of high-clearance-only vehicles. The finest of the finest of CalTrans' Snow Removal Professionals and their machines could be feather-gentle, as they strip down to actual pavement, but they could still nevertheless rip up big clods of pavement. Terrible roads and streets may still yet be a possibility, with ballasting subject to prolonged saturation that wrecks their integrity, so that the roads and streets could still yet end up being quite brittle, by Summer's end. Something else to consider . . . the foundation pads for buildings . . . unless those are firmly attached to shallow bedrock, they may be warped beyond recognition, with the differential settling of relatively soft soils as they progress from mud-to-dry evolution. That's another way that buildings could be torn apart, other than snow loadings upon some questionable roofs.

That’s a horrible way to live, winter, and fall, and summer melting!

It's really beautiful until it melts.

those people that think a continuous thru hike is not possible have no clue what they are talking about. if they dont choose to do so is one thing, but dont dictate your own limitations onto others.... they are very close minded people. and closing the trail due to snow??? no. thats literally not a thing. lol. seriously. snow does not stop hikers, just prepare better for what you are going to be dealing with. its not a big thing honestly, just bring snowshoes. Just a few years ago a couple guys did a Thru Hike of the PCT in the WINTER. all the snow, all the way. so a bit of extra snow in the spring is not going to be a issue for hikers. and they cannot actually "close" the trail. its just not possible.

I wonder how many people have flood insurance???? Because if you don't have flood insurance they won't pay one penny.

Pineapple Express!

California: It’ll take years to recover from the drought. Mother Nature: Hold my beer.

No earthquakes recently.

A "snowblower" designed to pull in & melt the snow may be more beneficial than to keep piling it up. In the long run, early winter "artificial melting" would freeze into ice. Ice takes longer to melt than fluffy snow. In turn, may slow sudden melt which may prevent flooding! Just a thought that popped into my pea size brain🤣

Tell the country to deal with it's over- abundance of " impervious surface". An engineer told me those were the magic words. Obviously more storm drains are needed.

The power cables should be kept clear for safety. Obviously the county has MISMANAGED this event big time. What nonsense!

Why not put window covering on them.

What do people have to pay to clear the snow off the roof?

So the county and city needs to haul snow out of town like so many other places have to do. I’ve seen video from Canadian cities blowing snow into dump trucks and hauling the loads to a reservoir or river for disposal!

I'd advise no back country hiking in the Sierra this summer. There will be a lot of search and rescue, guaranteed.

You need to do what they did in the old days. You need to dig trenches to divert the water to where it should go. And you all should pitch in. And donate for use of tractors and and whatever and whoever else you need. You need to get on this Now ! Speak to the National Guards too ! Before anymore Serious flooding.

Poor Forrest management by the state causing the forest fires.

0:40 folks living in flood plains and old washes take their chances, no expensive homes in that view for good reason.

Just like living by the beach - nope. I also wouldn't live in a flood zone. Perhaps we humans should get smarter about where we build. Hopefully the silver lining will be refilled reservoirs.

No one is forcing them to live there.

These two are not hikers .I am twice their age and have hiked the trail end to end twice.

COME ON MAN these folks do not know how to get snow off the roof MUCH EASIER WAYS to clear snow off roofs at least they are doing it once it starts melting and freezing it will get REALLY HEAVY

The cause of these snow dumps will repeat winters from now on, we passed a hard tippingpoint earth can't use jetstreams to cool itself in winter oceans are too warm & the thermal_mass of the planet. Instead N.America gets a groundhugging cold airmass 1200mi wide 1500ft thick oozing AK to the Gulf where it meets warmer-moist air severeweather, yet also creates the rotation to harvest Sargasso from the Doldrums to Florida. It can't change back until oceans cool. To be real, plan on snow dumps yearly, plan removal strategies, some homes can't be saved without modifying roofs & digging pits with outlets to meltwater. Spent happy yrs there late teens to early 20's, hth, best tho'ts to all ❤

They have to dig a tunnel around their home to allow all that melting snow into water to flow away from their home. All that water has to have a place to go or it is going into the home.

But you'll moved there...

These areas will become abandoned if this becomes a pattern.

and you there you have it drought; then rain, then snow, then wind...and wallah change in climate

I have burned more than twice the wood as compared to last year. Geo Engineering at its best.

What everybody now calls "climate change", for centuries was known as "seasons". There have been extreme weather events long before humans measured them. We can't control the earths rotation around the sun, which is the major cause of this. I know this isn't a popular belief now, but it's the truth. Best to plan your homes for heavy snow loads and flooding. Where I live, the government is requiring the raising structures 2 feet above minimum flood plain and no more construction in known flood plains. And no parking in the streets because the streets are designed to carry the water. Where I live, all buildings have to be one foot above the crown of the road or have dedicated water paths.

OMG. all spring long they complain about flooding and rain then summer comes along and they start complaining about drought and then its winter time and they'll go on and on and on about the snow.... For crying out loud, you guys are the boy that cried wolf

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