South Lake Tahoe impacted by severe flooding, structure collapses
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- The city of South Lake Tahoe is battling severe flooding and structure collapses as the atmospheric river continues pummeling Tahoe Basin.
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That's neglect You shouldn't have 500 in on a flat roof.
That's just stupidity
500 inches is on the top of mountains. 7500 ft area, not lake level. 20 feet in Homewood so far.
I lived on Tahoe Island Dr. and grew up here. This is scary because the roofs can’t handle the weight. Our house had an A frame roof to let the snow slide down. Stay safe! 🌧☃️❄️
Why aren't people shoveling the snow off the roofs? If it was my house or store I'd be pulling it down.
My friend has 3 pugs and lives in Lake Tahoe, but they all have sweaters
@@tobysmith4662 same with my friend. But he doesn't live in Tahoe or have any pugs
@@michaelhintz9091 How many sweaters does your friend have?
I live in snow country but to be honest I have never had to deal with those numbers. They more than likely don't have the resources to shovel all those roofs. Most of them were designed to handle heavy snow loads but the snow has just not stopped. On big snow years I have had to take time off from work to deal with snow. They actually need the national guard to step in and start trucking snow out and helping with the roofs. At this point there is no place to throw the snow. The need front end loaders and eighteen wheelers to truck this snow away. I wish them well.
Here in the Rockies of Colorado , We have Radiant heaters on Our roofs to melt the Snow !!! A part of Mountain Living here at 9000 feet Elevation !!!
Young people I remember snow like this back in the late 50's and 60's two to three feet over night, snow falling for
a week at a time and snow piles that did not melt away until late April, that is what it is like in winter at a Ski Resort.
You did not understand the issue. SNOW IS NOT THE PROBLEM! Rain melting the snow in march is the problem.
@@thornil2231
This has happened before in the past. You are just seeing part of a long term cycle repeating itself. The main difference between then and now is the ability to broadcast what is happening minute by minute and the shear volume of images that can be seen and videos watched on the internet. Today you can see what happens all over the world in real time whereas 20 years ago and before you might not hear about things at all and certainly see and hear hour by hour videos reporting what is happening.
@@oldtimefarmboy617 What are you talking about? I am talking about things happening over the past 20 years. People talking about a glacier being near their home that disappeared and retreated 10 miles. And that's documented. This is not some cycle this is warming cause by man and that is being ignored. All the scientific predictions made by scientists in the 80's are coming true. And they are happening faster than anticipated.
Good reporting, thx 4 posting!
This is so intense.I just hope for everyone's safety!!!!💗
This is only the beginning.. there's been a LOT of snowfall this year and we haven't even hit spring let alone summer yet.. but what's shown in this video isn't flooding either.. puddles at best..
Prayers for Miss Piggy.
Got back from South Lake Tahoe yesterday morning, some of the roads were already flooded. Stay away from the area if you don't live there, until the winter storms are all over.
Thank you. Great suggestion.
Go back to the Bay!
Hello, Austin resident! I moved from Sierra City *to* Austin several years ago, and hope to never see snow again. Looks like I left just in time....
I remember in October, when they were telling us it was another La Nina year, and we should expect yet another drought extending year.
I learned in the 1970's as a kid that "they" don't know what they are talking about.
"Triple dip La Nina".
@@stanbatchelor810The triple dip already happened 2020-2022
This motivates me to swim tomorrow; keep your snow and good luck.
I live in Ca, I do not complain about a single drop of rain or snowflake. We are lucky to get it.
Just hope the snow doesn't melt too quickly...
Sending prayers for those affected by the 40 feet of snow this winter and now heavy rain falling on top of it all. No one is complaining that the drought is over. The problem is that all the rain will create a rapid melt which will run down the mountain and flood low lying areas. Mountain run off can create mudslides and destroy roads. No amount of preparation (other than evacuations) will stop this event. Be prepared.🙏
GOD bless
It takes 5" to 10" of rainfall to melt about 12" of grounded snow. So, the rain you will be getting will account for only about 10% of snow melt and nothing to be alarmed about. It will be the actual rainfall amount that will be the water runoff you experience. Too much drama coming out of the news outlets and misinformed social media is driving all this fear.
Well take it the more the merrier
40 feet is only up on top of the mountains.
Really? prayers?
That entire state had gone PAST the point of "grace for that!
It's JUDGEMENT TIME.
YHVH has had ENOUGH with that abomination state. Enough is enough is ENOUGH.
They went PAST their "probation period", JUDGEMENT[T is all they are going to get from here especially about their last PROUD statement issue about Walgreens MURDER pill they refuse to sell Cali want to kick an entire retailer our of the whole state.
THAT was an UNPARDONABLE act of suicide for the state.
YHVH's spirit is 100% finished DONE with them.
from laredo tx 95 degrees outside good luck with that
Praying for everyone in the area. 🙏
Your telling me cal trans cant plow n transfer this snow to the lake or rivers? So what do we pay them for
Cal Trans takes care of the highways not city streets and parking lots.
They should take care of everything that has a road. Again, what do we pay them for & I'm not even from that area.
city streets are not CAL Trans responsibility. They got enough work as it is. And very few employees.
The saddest part of this is that they built a Grocery Outlet in South Lake Tahoe...
SLT is sad. Period.
Years ago the public could vote for Trader Joe’s or a goodwill….goodwill won.
Thais awesome you will have lots of water
I wonder how Reno Nevada and Central California will deal with all the water as the snow melts this Spring?
I'm getting flashbacks of the flood in '97.
A lot of the snow piles is from the snow trucks moving it off the roads.
Seems like people would be moving that snow off the roof, even a little .
Will the extra huge amount of snow in the mountains this winter have a positive impact on the drought of lake Mead and lake Powell and the entire Colorado river?
As of three days ago, the snowpack feeding the Colorado Rive is still lower than the 2017 snowpack. It will have a positive impact, but it won't fill Lake Mead.
The sierras drain into the Central Valley (west) and Great Basin (east). None of this snowpack feeds the Colorado.
Wow just like the mountains close to San Diego
That snow fall isn't outlandish for that area. Roofs should be self shedding. High pitched and metal.
I just don't understand why when things are dry, there isn't some plan of recuting inland waterways. Water displacement, give the water a place to go. From lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds, side ditches, etc already exist, then free them up from debris/obstacles. Imagine all that rich soil that is pulled out, how it could be used in agriculture. Something like what the Netherlands have done for decades.
We are talking about Crazy & Corrupt Cali here, unfortunately my home state:( Always wasting money with one committee or another, while "plans" to catch rainwater for drought seasons have been in the works over 20 years or more~plus, the Environmental groups keep suing to stop a major dam build because of wanting to protect the Smelt population...Beyond foolish!!
When you pray for rain, you better prepare for the mud.
It’s happening so fast man tons of snow melting,, could it be sending AZ PHX the cloud cover we are having , steam clouds of snow -is that possible?
Someone needs to melt all that snow on the roof with a flame thrower lol
Perhaps those business owners should consider removing that snow from their roofs before it caves in. A shovel is a few useful tool (elbow grease required).
Why isn't that business getting the snow removed from the roof?
that is clean subaru at 3:04
Rain melts the snow real fast.. Fire guy is clueless...
There's a big storm coming Thursday ... I mean Friday ... I mean Saturday ... I mean Sunday ...
😁🤣😂😂😃
Agreed, I got sprinkled on earlier.
Now it's Tuesday...
Weatherman can't get a 24-hour forecast even remotely close ... and these "Einsteins" want us to believe their climate models can accurately predict 80 YEARS into the future??!!
It'll come! Just watch the skies and be patient! ^^
Prayers for everyone to come through safely.🙏💟✝️
Never let a Crisis go to waste.
We need 1.2 billion in federal assistance now… what I am not exaggerating.. lots of rain
I'm here in South Lake. If there is an emergency I haven't seen it.
@@scottw5315 give it a few hours.
yes the trick is to have invested in overseas shovel manufacturing
Bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at 5-
She can tell you of the plane crash with a glee in her eye🎼
Thanks for the informative news, snow melts, would never have guessed that. 😂
Remember the 😊Snow to water ratio is 1 inch of rain equals 1foot of snow.
Not the last months snow. Blower. When it’s snowing down to 1000ft it’s just dust at 6kft.
Good reporting, but it is hard to give this one a thumbs up because of the devastation.
What did you think was going to happen when the snow melted. 👍👍👍. 3-11-2023
In Austin Texas Bob Wills is still the King
Utah here. Calm down.
They were planning on closing this store site this year anyway.
Now they have an early excuse to do so.
That store should have never let the snow pile up so much. There has been plenty of clear time
In between snow fall to have done the right thing and kept that roof clear.
Just like any and all other businesses and properties in this basin should do during heavy winters. Everyone that lives in the mountains should know this.
South Tahoe is just fine with all the snow, though we haven't had anything as substantial since the winter of '96-'97 and what followed. There are areas and streets that flood every winter regardless, especially down near 3rd & Helen.
Tahoe was amazing in the winters with their fleet of snow removal machines and trucks.
It was an awesome sight to see them work in tandem and so efficiently smooth.
Intersection roundabouts in the winters
DO NOT MX WELL.
Dumbest waste of time, money, and brain cells ever to be allowed.
There's been quite a few other moronic so called decisions made throughout the years in Tahoe. It's been very disappointing and down right heartbreaking for many many people in this community too many times to count.
We'll be fine. We always have been, even without the big supermarkets, roundabouts, and snow machines. They had none of these things back in the days and we're still kicking.
Completely agree..they are in an area that does get snow, but when it got to be more than they have ever seen, they they should dealt with it..whiners!
@@pliktl Does Alaska ever receive 50 plus feet of snow? The thought of clearing a simple intersection does sound easier than a traffic circle. In addition, in my recent winter excursions to the Tahoe area, I learned that local ordinances now restrict how much snow can be simply pushed out of parking lots and such. It has to be trucked away. In the case of Tahoe, and 50 feet of snow, what does "away" mean? The cost for gasoline and diesel is the highest in the nation in California, how far are they expected to haul it?
Sadly this sounds like every town and city in America.
@Miss WildLife but it's not more than they have ever seen..... This year currently marks the 47th most snowfall in the region. That means that there have been 46 more winters with more snowfall dating back to 1909.
@@pliktl Gee Alexandra, that was quite the rant. No I'm not upset, it certainly appears that you are though. I was simply stating a few inconvenient truths. You seem to have a place in your heart for traffic circles that work in Alaska, and I pointed out the difficulty of removing snow. Your perception that all one needs for snow removal is a big blower, haul trucks, and a mountain side to dump it down is naive, especially in the Tahoe area where every state and local official is concerned for the environment, you can't just throw the snow down a slope.
Finally, Alaska, I suppose you live there now, no longer in Gilroy, but my remark was correct, Alaska does not get 50 feet of snow. Most of Alaska receives below 100 inches a year. Records, however, do show Valdez to be the snowiest city, and does receive more than that, with an average snowfall of 300 inches, converted, that is around 25 feet. Valdez is a small town and probably doesn't really need many traffic circles, but if that is where you now live and have time to attend city council meeting and advocate for more traffic circles, then I wish you all the best.
That stupid new name
“Atmospheric river “
Lord save us from that jingle
FREE SNOW ⛄️ 😮
It wasn't too long ago when these residents had to flee from wildfires. Now, they are dealing with possible roof collapses and flooding.
Happens every year
Always with the crazies on the remote.
500 inches of snow equals 41.6 ft!
35-40 feet average winter for donner summit.
"It's already starting to flood" and she points to a puddle...great coverage!
Yeah, But how is the skiing ?
This is normal in Buffalo, NY. They bring in the national guard to export the snow back to Canada and dump it into lake erie.
Boooo
uh, no it's not. I know you get a lot of snow, but it's nothing compared to what we have this year. SMH
@MrTheMagicDragon you should double check that. You'll find mote than 6ft of snow fell twice this year. It's a common occurrence.
@@skoVBA2 Buffalo Airport averages around 95" a year. 36.6" fell November 17-19. 40.3" fell December 23-24. That's a lot of snow, but it's not more than 6 feet twice this winter. And it's not a common occurence either, or the average would be a lot higher than 95".
@desihawkins9874 the airport is far an away from the lake effect that falls in the city of Buffalo. That's why it's called Buffalo Niagara.
There are Northern Cities that deal with this kind of snow all the time. They have fields where they take the removed snow and let it melt there, instead of leaving it on roofs to crush and collapse, instead of leaving in piles to melt and flood the city, HAUL The Snow Out of Town, designate a site and put all the snow there.
costs about 500 dollars an hour to make that happen--sometimes double that here in mammoth lakes
Move it to the lakes
How do you get it outta there? Mr. Snow removal.
Give your head a shake. There are no cities that get this much snow.the only reason they truck it away is so they can clear all the roads and parking lots.
The snowiest regions in North America are in the intermountain West , Sierra Nevadas, Rocky Mountains, Cascades, Southeast Alaska, the eastern Great Lakes and upper Midwest don't even come close. Regions not cities, 3rd snowiest city is Flagstaff, Arizona.
Shovel roofs off!!
80+% of the homes are vacation Rentals/Second homes, those roofs are not going to get shoveled.
Guess the lake will be full
The lake was already full, so yes it will remain full, the Truckee river will be fun this spring.
Snow Shoveling with a ranger ?
Could be a good side-Hustle . . .
Heavy wet snow must be removed or roofs will collapse. We know this in the U.P. OF MICHIGAN. Plus gas generators are sweet!!!
Too bad gas generators are ban in California! Suckers.
@@lizardking4625 DO they have Green generators?? Ya know those powered by hamsters on treadmills??
Some may think your abbreviation for the Upper Peninsula is short for Union Pacific, however.
Hopefully they have Ford Lightnings! Those would power their homes so I’m told. I see your in Michigan and I’m in Wyoming, normal day for us!
@@jimw1615 I thought it meant Utopian Parascope.
Will all this rain and snow help fill up Lake Mead?
You mean Winter Storm right? Is winter storm too white?
Ah, lived through that yearly from 77 to 83.
Snow dump . . When I lived in Boston during the winter of 100 inches of snow, the city created a snow dump for some of the excess snow. It was all kind of excess. Same thing in Alaska where I have also lived. They create a snow dump for the snow. So it can be removed from neighborhoods.
here in mammoth lakes the trucks haul it away to get rid of some of the nearly 600 inches but it costs big money and nobody wants to pay
@@dethray1000 Got it. . . Sorry to hear that. In Boston the piles were high and they just had to figure out where to put the snow or it just would have sat there blocking the roads. The snow piles were taller than the first level of a house.
Soo does this mean no more water rationing??
Reporters have been insutructed to use the term "atmospheric river" whenever possible, or they will get fired.
Get snow blowers that will throw the snow farther; perhaps if it was wet the blower could throw it further. A diff blower of course.
When all the massive amount of snow melts n travels down the mountains to the valleys/towns below it surely will bring a mega disaster, a catastrophe of epic proportions!!😢😭😱
ANYBODY SEEN FREDO ? LAST SEEN FISHING EARLIER THIS MORNING.
So will lake Mead get some water?
Watch out fir the snow eaters. When I was a kid, that was prime snow tunnel pack. Not that kids do that anymore but watch out, don't want to get eaten by the snow eater.
The Resetters say there's still a drought
South Lake Tahoe has a steamboat? 😱
What is going on is the snow is melting.....geeesh.
It’s not the sided of someone’s driveway!!! It’s a huge intersection and the plow operator piled the snow near that stop sign. Typical news find the most extreme and worse and focus on that like it’s the norm everywhere:-(
Is there a reason they can't fill dump trucks with the large snow drifts and dump it in the lake inside of letting it flood? I've seen large snow plows blow snow into large trucks to keep drifts from building up on roadways.
I was about to say the same thing. That what they do in Marquette, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. They dump the snow into ( onto ) Lake Superior.
She picked a heck of a time to come to CA, years of light snow/rain and she comes during our wettest year in a long time, lol.
This atmospheric river is ONLY making news because it's California. In Orgon and WA states, they just call this "just another day in winter". In the Pac NW, this is what a lot of most winters are like
Meanwhile yuppies from the bay are charging up the teslas, ready to hit the road (chainless of course)and cause chaos 😂
Don't mind those trails in the sky.. you know those airplanes that don't show up on commercial trackers... It's the Stratospheric Aerosol Injection or Geo engineering
Why don't they trailer the snow out and dump it
They do. It's just been to stormy to load and truck....people got to go skiing and get in the way you know!
And the price of diesel due to Biden admin is a little pricey in case you haven’t checked since Jan 2020
Doesn't matter to them, they give out money like it's nothing anyways
City doesn't have the money or resources to do that.
I've been here since 2000 and its never been this bad
been here since '57--seen it like this many many times--the media is making up all kinds of drama--never had a 4 wh dr til '85,went every where,chained up now and then--the donner party had 30 ft of snow around donner lake--you used to tell what trees they cut down when the snow level was at 13 ft where they made their cabins,ate each other-they made their own snow shoes out of tree branches
This is like the 60s and early 80s
2017 was worst. Twice it rained 12 inches at 7000 feet causing 2 rock slides on hwy 50 and 1 on I80.
Kevin it has been much worse there before. You missed the mid 90s 🤣.
Glad everybody has flood insurance. The people that don't have it will not get paid for the damages.
Funny how the mentality changes on the California side of the border…
Besides driving alone with a mask what else do you see?
I saw bears there. Hope they are ok.
At least people will be able to take their boats out again this year
This is normal, if you build a structure in places where it shows heavily and didn't build in the ability to withstand rapidly melting snow or the weight of it and don't have people constantly working or doing it yourself to clear walks and salt paths and snow plow EVERY DAY because wet rain melts snow fast or properly maintain or build in drainage that can handle 15 feet of snow melting and pooling then it's a artificial problem of poor foresight and lack of wisdom on the property owners. Cutting corners and costs even after being warned or seeing how things were done that were already there before you moved in developing the area further is a bad choice unless you are a developer actually building cheap disposable structures to sell to ignorant people because you wanted to make money and don't actually care if it collapses on them during a hash winter. Flooding and structure collapse is a man made problem where people wanted more for less now and didn't understand they need to account for the extremes of what is possible not what is typical.
As a local I disagree, there are only so many people here that are capable of removing the snow. We heavily rely on tourists yearly for income. With so much snow and not a large enough "snow removal" workforce it doesn't work. The culverts are so buried beneath snow and ice it takes a while to clear them and this year theres not enough time before another storm hits. Without the drains the roads become rivers. Multiple structures are "damaged"and very few have collapsed. Buildings from the 60/70's that haven't been renovated are unfortunately due for damage. You can put blame on the owner but the money isn't in south lake like it is in Incline.
One of those excavator arm mounted mulcher converted to a snow thrower would be a good thing
Nice to see the Subarus and Tacomas driving through those puddles no problem
If you insist on rebuilding you'd better be prepared to not be insured.
the snow isn't melting, it's raining. 🤦🏼
Keep it Blue
Lol…watch out lady!
Don’t let it “shoomp” or “thoomp” on you!
There is no flood on street, clean drain from snow.
What drain? Tahoe doesn't have drains or gutters, or sidewalks.
@@xtc996 ist die Zeit da stehengeblieben ? Ich würde ja sagen im Mittelalter, aber das wäre falsch. Hier bauten die Römer schon Kanäle vor 2000 Jahren aber da sprangen in Amerika noch Indianer rum.
Fließend Wasser und Strom sind dort noch neu. Sogar in Russland und der Ukraine gehen die Leute in den Garten aufs Kackhaus. Keine Kanalisation. Aus einem Loch im Garten holen die Trinkwasser und in ein anderes Loch 10 Meter weiter kacken die rein. Lecker.
Grandma 75F by mid may 2 months take it easy .
I'm super happy about this, I know it's an inconvenience but it'll really help with the drought and it'll be a delight for the animals and insects. Hang in there and when you dig yourself out maybe have a parade, huzzah huzzah huzzah!
Normal people are not allowed to have parades in CA
Actually no this is not good. The snow is our reserve for summer. If it is melting now what will we have this summer?
@@thornil2231 the melted snow is being turned into Hair Gel so you will maintain the same quality of leadership you've gotten used to..
@@thornil2231 in the urban environment yes, storm drains... empty it in the Pacific and it's of no useful purpose, but the rural places ground water, reservoirs... it's useful. the tragedy is people lost their lives and lots of property damage and I forgot to account for that in my comment, my mistake. Where I'm at snakes, bees, spiders... have been virtually unseen for the last two years and I want them back in abundance and I'm hoping this tremendous deluge will do it.
@@isaacwhull You missed my point. Yes water and snow is great. But not flooding in early March. They will have to open the spillway at the reservoirs and we are still in a drought.
This has some of the nicest cars driving slow through water.
they had no idea this would ever happen
The snow melt has started!
Question will California insurance company fall into bankruptcy
then its going to get cold again and freeze and some more snow by the end of winter
It will likely be snowing into May...every year is different.
It's only a few days away
Looks Kool surfing it yeah
Vicki looks wild
Snow weighs 20lbs/cu ft. Water soaked snow 50lbs multiply that by roof square sq footage and depth and you’re talking 100,000 lbs
A slushy and Slurpee mess. But, still dangerous
why do not they get u