Thanks for sharing. It must be very stressful to endure all of this and worry about your buried hens, and whether your neighbors are OK. I'm glad you are alive and surviving.
DAMN you guys were BURIED waist deep & then some I love Lake Arrowhead, it's 1 of my best thoughts of Calif when I use to live there from the 60's as a kid till I got out of there in the mid 80's, & never went back. Glad to know there's some good folks still around to lend a hand & neighbors working together, cause like we ALL know, we always know who the good people are when things get tough, we all need each other.
What a beautifully captured and elegantly narrated poem about you and your mountain loving community!! Beautiful cinematography!! MY family's thoughts and prayers are with you guys!! Thk you for allowing us into your winter wonderland!!!
Thank you for sharing this video. I saw my house in the beginning of it so we must be neighbors. What an unbelievable couple of weeks it has been. Such a mix of emotions! Feeling grateful to hopefully be on the other side of it now. God bless you!
Wonderful skiing and snowboarding but yes hard on the ppl who live there and have local businesses that close for days. Now California needs to keep the snow pack for the coming summer and not have warm rains wash much of it away especially SoCal.
Yea right, Now California needs to keep the snow pack for the coming summer, this is why they are all over climate change cause they have destroyed Calif.
This is a very good report. It does a good job showing your personal situation and that of your community. I appreciate your positive news and the up front report about the house fires and the market collapse. You have been in the prayers of many! 🙏
I Grew Up In Arrowhead In The 50`s . My Grand Mother And Father Ran The Village Theater. Grand Father And Another Ex Cop Started The Rim Patrol, He Also Ran The Ski Jump. That Ran Next To The Big Church ( Nunery). We Had What They Called The "SNOWFALL" Of The Century. I Could Walk To The Road And Up Over Their House And Slide Down The Other side .This , Brings Back Some Very Fine Memories For Me. Thank You For Sharing This With Us. Spring , Will Be Up There Very Soon And Your Flock Will Give You More Eggs. Their Last Name Was SELBY . House Is Still There .
You got to call JOHN!!! lol that was super funny for some reason. I wonder if John thinks "I wonder if Melissa will call me because of all the snow." all jokes aside i hope you guys stay safe
At the time, we did not know why everyone was digging out gas meters. We called the gas company and they said, you didn’t have to , it was just rumors! We had two houses in our neighborhood literally blow up, she said nothing. A few days later, they sent a message out.
So now you know foe the next winter to mark your structures like they do NY. It's why they have the long reflected poles so snow plugs know where the curbs, fire hydrants and cars are parked.
Excellent Vlog of this event. And I'm very sorry for what you had to go through. I would advise to keep this footage stored in other locations beside TH-cam. This is a historical document (or will be).
You did a great job of capturing the storm. Did all of your chickens survive? Our Labrador lost her struggle with renal failure while we were snowed in ( and even if we could have gotten out both the vets were closed) We definitely learned lessons in self reliance and thank goodness for neighbors. we are mountain strong.
The trouble with all of these places / homes down there in that part of California is the people that live there have hardly any place to put snow during a, “normal”, winter. And then, when they have an above average normal winter, or they flat out have a, “SNOW-MAGEDDON”, they have absolutely no place to put any snow. Where these mountain communities down, there went wrong, and it’s too late to do anything about it now, they packed their houses in way too tight!!! we don’t have that problem here in Northwest Montana. Everybody has plenty of room to put as much snow as they want. We’ve had winters like this and we still didn’t have any trouble with parking tractor-trailer loads of snow out in fields. I spent almost 2 hours yesterday on Google Earth cruising through neighborhoods down in Mammoth, and also in A mountain town called CRESTLINE. And, it was another mountain community that the people was flat out idiots I do mean idiots, real shit for brains to build houses the way they did there. TO US THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN HAVING TO SQUEEZE BETWEEN VEHICLES 🚗 INSIDE, YOUR OWN-GARAGE.. I’ve lost count of the turns on the paved roads, where there is no room to hardly get through One vehicle at a time. And by that I mean one way not wide enough for 2 way traffic. You would think it would’ve dawned on some of these people when they went to either buy a house or build a house that this would have dawned on them. “Oh honey, where the hell are we gonna put snow when we have a real snowy winter?? we barely have any room now and it’s summer. So what are we going to do when we have a real snowy winter? We have to be out of our minds. Don’t want to have a house in this neighborhood let’s get the hell out of here.” And I mean, every word, I said. Pertaining to the streets where there was only room for one way traffic, and there was barely room for that. And understand I’m using Google Earth that the Google vehicle went through there in the summer. Those lots, are so tiny!!! Our garage that’s hooked to our log home is a real wide 4 🚘 car 🚙 type 🚘 garage 🚗 Because when we built our home over 30 years ago, I made sure the garage would be big enough so you can park inside with both doors open on an SUV or a pick up, and you would still have plenty of room to walk between two vehicles. 2 SUV With doors open and still plenty of room between 2. Sitting next, To one another. And then we have a separate building that is long because it’s an eight car garage but it’s made out of logs. I am born and raised up here and so is my wife, so we are not strangers to the weather. We know just how bad it can really really get. It can get every bit as bad as folks are seeing out in California. That’s why when you go to build a place, especially when you go to build a place, you had damn well better take into account what the weather can dump on you. And that’s just like your roof. Only roof that we would have is a metal roof. And, you want it You want IT, SLOPED STEEP!!! I guess you would probably say that we have a larger size log house than normal. 3, 765 square feet. The majority of our roof is STEEPLY SLOPED. And, IT’S HEATED. We could live 2 feet or 3 feet of snow build up on our roof. But soon as that happened and we flipped a switch in one of 6 places in our house, in about 15 to 20 minutes all of a sudden you would hear A HUGE LOUD SLIDE HAPPEN!! It would be the snow, breaking loose all along our roof in places and sliding off.
My oldest freind, Cindy Brown and her husband Roger, are up there. She texted over a week ago that she would call me when she could. Still haven’t heard from her.
I moved up to Big Bear Lake 2 years ago. I plan to move out of state later this year 2023. It may be beautiful to visit here, only. I would not recommend moving up here. In two years, broke a bone, fire evacuation, had to euthanize my dog and now huge snow storm. Have had a difficult time trying to get to dental and doctors appts down the mountain. There are no medical specialists up here. You have to drive down mountain. It is an hour or longer in good weather to base of mountain. When it snows up here, all deliveries stop 🛑. The post office does not deliver, no medicines, packages. Instacart does not delivery, no shoppers. Everything shuts down. You are on your own. People are nice but you are isolated up here. Sorry but I would rather live somewhere else. I cannot tell you how many times I have had to change or cancel dental, physical therapy or doctor appts due to weather. Ice, snow, not driving down mountain, too dangerous. Plus up here, snow never melts, just turns to ice. High elevation, cold, winds. No thank you. You always have to prepare ahead with food, paper goods, medicines. Weeks in advance. I had to call local vet up here once, it was closed. Office message said if emergency you have go to their other office way down mountain in Ontario? So if I had to get to vet back then, I would have to drive 2 hours away? It is not worth all the issues and trouble to live up here. Very dangerous and isolating and you are stuck. No help, no deliveries, no food, clinics close down. I am a planner and stocked up my pantry prior. Bought food from Amazon and Stater Brother's weeks ago. Soups, canned goods, pastas, rice, beans, nuts, veg's. But I was starting to panic because we were running low. I could not get any type of deliveries for over a week. Had unscrupulous owner of "Home of Hangover" tell me I would need to purchase minimum of $100.00.+ $30.00 tip.for driver, if I wanted an order delivered. His store is only a mile down the road. And I live here too. WOW! Greedy person. After living up here, I would never recommend it. Too many problems, issues, obstacles, dangerous.
I haven't seen snow in Blue Jay or Crestline like this since the 60s. Too bad the pineapple express will wash it all away. CA needed the Sierra snow pack. This is global warming
What a story - thank you for sharing. Blessings & prayers.
Thank you, Alan!
César 🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️❄️❄️❄️☃️🌬️
Thanks for sharing. It must be very stressful to endure all of this and worry about your buried hens, and whether your neighbors are OK. I'm glad you are alive and surviving.
Just crazy snow. Prayers for all .
Sweet Melissa, just wanna to let you know that you and all the mountain folk are in our prayers.
and how has that helped ?
@@JonnyTheLeprechaun 😂😆😅🤣🤔
DAMN you guys were BURIED waist deep & then some
I love Lake Arrowhead, it's 1 of my best thoughts of
Calif when I use to live there from the 60's as a kid
till I got out of there in the mid 80's, & never went back.
Glad to know there's some good folks still around to
lend a hand & neighbors working together, cause like
we ALL know, we always know who the good people
are when things get tough, we all need each other.
Lake Arrowhead has alway been a hidden gem. We are surrounded by such wonderful people up here. Thank you for sharing your lovely memory.
What a beautifully captured and elegantly narrated poem about you and your mountain loving community!! Beautiful cinematography!! MY family's thoughts and prayers are with you guys!! Thk you for allowing us into your winter wonderland!!!
Thank you for the prayers and your beautiful comment. ❤️
Thank you for sharing this video. I saw my house in the beginning of it so we must be neighbors. What an unbelievable couple of weeks it has been. Such a mix of emotions! Feeling grateful to hopefully be on the other side of it now. God bless you!
Hello Neighbor! Yes, I must live right around the corner from you. God bless you, Joan!
Some of those still shots would make beautiful Xmas cards. Hoping everyone is safe. ❤ from the UK
Wonderful skiing and snowboarding but yes hard on the ppl who live there and have local businesses that close for days. Now California needs to keep the snow pack for the coming summer and not have warm rains wash much of it away especially SoCal.
Yea right, Now California needs to keep the snow pack
for the coming summer, this is why they are all over
climate change cause they have destroyed Calif.
This is a very good report. It does a good job showing your personal situation and that of your community.
I appreciate your positive news and the up front report about the house fires and the market collapse.
You have been in the prayers of many! 🙏
Thank you, Michael
César 🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️🌬️
Thanks for sharing! Was wondering what happened up there in the mountains. From LA / OC we could see the mountains were BURIED
Aww the snowshoes shoulda been put on before u walked down that hill .. easy with ski poles . Great video
I Grew Up In Arrowhead In The 50`s . My Grand Mother And Father Ran The Village Theater. Grand Father And Another Ex Cop Started The Rim Patrol, He Also Ran The Ski Jump. That Ran Next To The Big Church ( Nunery). We Had What They Called The "SNOWFALL" Of The Century. I Could Walk To The Road And Up Over Their House And Slide Down The Other side .This , Brings Back Some Very Fine Memories For Me. Thank You For Sharing This With Us. Spring , Will Be Up There Very Soon And Your Flock Will Give You More Eggs. Their Last Name Was SELBY . House Is Still There .
Thank you for sharing this lovely memory. Next time I’m in the theater, I’ll think of your Grandparents. I’m sure I know people who know the name.
@@melissarain9138 Thank You. The Penny Arcade If Still Open, The Owners Children Might Remember Lol
@@mikeabbott7209 Sadly, no penny arcade.
good job!
You got to call JOHN!!! lol that was super funny for some reason. I wonder if John thinks "I wonder if Melissa will call me because of all the snow." all jokes aside i hope you guys stay safe
Thank you for a good laugh! For some reason, I thought the Koi couldn’t breath under 4 feet of snow. You can bet, we called JOHN! 😂
May God Continue To Protect You!
Thank you so much, Gabriella!
@Melissa Rain at 11:15 in, the screenshot of the Facebook post tells you why you were told to dig out your gas meter.
At the time, we did not know why everyone was digging out gas meters. We called the gas company and they said, you didn’t have to , it was just rumors! We had two houses in our neighborhood literally blow up, she said nothing. A few days later, they sent a message out.
May God help them .🧡❤🌷🌹🍁⚘👍
I'm going to guess you didnt come from an area in NY that gets lake effect snow?
So now you know foe the next winter to mark your structures like they do NY. It's why they have the long reflected poles so snow plugs know where the curbs, fire hydrants and cars are parked.
Excellent Vlog of this event. And I'm very sorry for what you had to go through. I would advise to keep this footage stored in other locations beside TH-cam. This is a historical document (or will be).
You did a great job of capturing the storm. Did all of your chickens survive? Our Labrador lost her struggle with renal failure while we were snowed in ( and even if we could have gotten out both the vets were closed) We definitely learned lessons in self reliance and thank goodness for neighbors. we are mountain strong.
I am so sorry, you lost your dog. How heartbreaking! There’s a few things we would have done differently. We are mountain strong! 🥰
Extra food to feed me for a year!
Are the chickens ok? Wow…….Stay Safe!
The chickens are good and they even laid a few eggs during the blizzard! Thank you for asking.
When you pray for rain.
🙏🙏🙏
GRAND SOLAR MINIMUM has arrived. Much more snow coming...
Prep up in all ways....
The trouble with all of these places / homes down there in that part of California is the people that live there have hardly any place to put snow during a, “normal”, winter.
And then, when they have an above average normal winter, or they flat out have a, “SNOW-MAGEDDON”, they have absolutely no place to put any snow.
Where these mountain communities down, there went wrong, and it’s too late to do anything about it now, they packed their houses in way too tight!!! we don’t have that problem here in Northwest Montana.
Everybody has plenty of room to put as much snow as they want. We’ve had winters like this and we still didn’t have any trouble with parking tractor-trailer loads of snow out in fields.
I spent almost 2 hours yesterday on Google Earth cruising through neighborhoods down in Mammoth, and also in A mountain town called CRESTLINE. And, it was another mountain community that the people was flat out idiots I do mean idiots, real shit for brains to build houses the way they did there.
TO US THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN HAVING TO SQUEEZE BETWEEN VEHICLES 🚗 INSIDE, YOUR OWN-GARAGE..
I’ve lost count of the turns on the paved roads, where there is no room to hardly get through One vehicle at a time. And by that I mean one way not wide enough for 2 way traffic. You would think it would’ve dawned on some of these people when they went to either buy a house or build a house that this would have dawned on them.
“Oh honey, where the hell are we gonna put snow when we have a real snowy winter?? we barely have any room now and it’s summer. So what are we going to do when we have a real snowy winter? We have to be out of our minds. Don’t want to have a house in this neighborhood let’s get the hell out of here.”
And I mean, every word, I said. Pertaining to the streets where there was only room for one way traffic, and there was barely room for that. And understand I’m using Google Earth that the Google vehicle went through there in the summer. Those lots, are so tiny!!!
Our garage that’s hooked to our log home is a real wide 4 🚘 car 🚙 type 🚘 garage 🚗 Because when we built our home over 30 years ago, I made sure the garage would be big enough so you can park inside with both doors open on an SUV or a pick up, and you would still have plenty of room to walk between two vehicles.
2 SUV With doors open and still plenty of room between 2. Sitting next, To one another. And then we have a separate building that is long because it’s an eight car garage but it’s made out of logs.
I am born and raised up here and so is my wife, so we are not strangers to the weather. We know just how bad it can really really get. It can get every bit as bad as folks are seeing out in California. That’s why when you go to build a place, especially when you go to build a place, you had damn well better take into account what the weather can dump on you.
And that’s just like your roof. Only roof that we would have is a metal roof. And, you want it You want IT, SLOPED STEEP!!! I guess you would probably say that we have a larger size log house than normal. 3, 765 square feet.
The majority of our roof is STEEPLY SLOPED. And, IT’S HEATED. We could live 2 feet or 3 feet of snow build up on our roof.
But soon as that happened and we flipped a switch in one of 6 places in our house, in about 15 to 20 minutes all of a sudden you would hear A HUGE LOUD SLIDE HAPPEN!! It would be the snow, breaking loose all along our roof in places and sliding off.
Sadly, it will only get worse in the coming years,
This is what my husband said.
My oldest freind, Cindy Brown and her husband Roger, are up there. She texted over a week ago that she would call me when she could. Still haven’t heard from her.
I sure hope you hear from her soon, Rebecca.
I moved up to Big Bear Lake 2 years ago.
I plan to move out of state later this year 2023.
It may be beautiful to visit here, only.
I would not recommend moving up here.
In two years, broke a bone, fire evacuation, had to euthanize my dog and now huge snow storm.
Have had a difficult time trying to get to dental and doctors appts down the mountain.
There are no medical specialists up here.
You have to drive down mountain.
It is an hour or longer in good weather to base of mountain.
When it snows up here, all deliveries stop 🛑.
The post office does not deliver, no medicines, packages.
Instacart does not delivery, no shoppers.
Everything shuts down.
You are on your own.
People are nice but you are isolated up here.
Sorry but I would rather live somewhere else.
I cannot tell you how many times I have had to change or cancel dental, physical therapy or doctor appts due to weather.
Ice, snow, not driving down mountain, too dangerous.
Plus up here, snow never melts, just turns to ice.
High elevation, cold, winds.
No thank you.
You always have to prepare ahead with food, paper goods, medicines. Weeks in advance.
I had to call local vet up here once, it was closed.
Office message said if emergency you have go to their other office way down mountain in Ontario?
So if I had to get to vet back then, I would have to drive 2 hours away?
It is not worth all the issues and trouble to live up here.
Very dangerous and isolating and you are stuck.
No help, no deliveries, no food, clinics close down.
I am a planner and stocked up my pantry prior.
Bought food from Amazon and Stater Brother's weeks ago.
Soups, canned goods, pastas, rice, beans, nuts, veg's.
But I was starting to panic because we were running low.
I could not get any type of deliveries for over a week.
Had unscrupulous owner of "Home of Hangover" tell me I would need to purchase minimum of $100.00.+ $30.00 tip.for driver, if I wanted an order delivered.
His store is only a mile down the road.
And I live here too. WOW! Greedy person.
After living up here, I would never recommend it.
Too many problems, issues, obstacles, dangerous.
Where are you exploring? We are scoping out Tennessee!
I haven't seen snow in Blue Jay or Crestline like this since the 60s. Too bad the pineapple express will wash it all away. CA needed the Sierra snow pack. This is global warming
I live pretty close to the Village, I was lucky and was able to walk to Staterbros whenever I needed. What a crazy snow fall this was, lol.
Totally!