Snowing. Blowing. Peaking. Writing. Today’s Words from the Underground.
By Tom Chandler on Feb 22, 2007 in News
It started snowing last night - a wet, slushy snow - and this morning there were a couple inches of the white stuff awaiting the attentions of the stooped and pained Mighty Tom and His Trusty Shovel: the Slayers of Snow Drifts.
Naturally, the Upper Sacramento’s blown out, the flows peaking at 9,000 cfs.
Frankly, shoveling snow is as close as I’m going to get to the water.
Deadlines
Instead, I’m trying to meet some tough deadlines.
And I might point out that all this is happening while the Underground’s Tennessee Correspondent and Slaw Dog Procurement Manager Ian Rutter is cavorting in Belize with his lovely, fly-fishing wife Charity, where - as far as I know - there isn’t any snow to be shoveled, and damn few clothes worn.
I will remember this.
Nestle
In the meantime, my recent Nestle rampage (and e-mail to the corporate types) brought a response from the local Nestle Operative Representative.
No, it didn’t address any of the issues I raised in my e-mail, but as soon as I get a few minutes I’ll respond and ask if he’s willing to make his e-mail public here (it’s considered rude to publish a private e-mail in its entirety without permission)
Either way, I’m going to excerpt a short part where he invoked the names of a few environmental organizations - after I’ve done some digging.
Complicated. But worth the wait.
See you behind the snow shovel, Tom Chandler.
Technorati Tags: nestle, upper sacramento, upper sacramento river, ian rutter, belize
Clay | Feb 22, 2007 | Reply
Snow eh? We are being blown away by 50mph gusts in West Michigan and needless to say this makes it difficult to cast. Maybe it will blow “Ice Mountain” across the state and into Lake Huron. Oh well wishful thinking. Ask your Nestle hack how they live with themselves or if they even care about the environmental (and irreversible) damage they are doing to our states. Would be very interested to see this e-mail you speak of. Anyway Tom back to my Dewars on the rocks.
Heddon17 | Feb 22, 2007 | Reply
Just a couple inches of snow???
Up here in Yreka we awoke to nearly 16 inches of the stuff on the ground! Took me a good hour to shovel 30′ of the driveway so I could get out later, etc. If there had been only a couple inches of the stuff I wouldn’t have even bothered to shovel the driveway…..
Brian
Jim Webb | Feb 22, 2007 | Reply
So why are flows on the upper Sac spiking like that?
Tom Chandler | Feb 22, 2007 | Reply
The Nestle thing is developing. More as it happens.
Last night’s storm went north, so - in a rare switch - Yreka got more snow than we did. More here today, and more predicted through Monday.
As for the Upper Sac, it spiked because it rained the night and day before the snow began, and besides, even when snows at the stop of the canyon it can be raining in Dunsmuir (or anywhere in the canyon).
Remember - the flows are measured where the river meets the lake. A long, long ways (and a lot of tributaries) from here.
Heddon17 | Feb 22, 2007 | Reply
Yeah they were predicting that storm would stall over the Cascades/Siskiyous late yesterday afternoon and really dump the snow. They thought it would stall over the Mt Shasta area which is why they issued the Heavy Snow Warning there and snow advisaries just about everywhere else.
Didn’t happen since it stalled out north of where they said it would, so Yreka got a pile of snow, I-5 was shut down from Yreka to Ashland, etc.
rriver | Feb 26, 2007 | Reply
I wish I would have brought my fly rod Sunday. Many of the spots on the upper Sac looked fishable Sunday, down below Dunsmuir, like Slate Creek, though I was judging color and flow from I-5. The Rogue was a muddy mess and flows were 8,000 or more. The lower Sac looked really good in spots. People were fishing it as I drove by.
Talked to my wife, and she had to broom the snow off the satellite dish twice yesterday. Now that’s a storm.
- rriver