We are seeing once again the polar vortex drop down pretty low even into places like North Carolina and further south. Even in California we have had snow levels as low as 2000 feet or lower in selected areas of the state. All these things make for a much more severe winter than we have seen in years and it appears it is only beginning because it is still January. Likely the coldest temperatures we will see this month and February if this is a typical winter that we haven't seen on the west coast in years now. It's great to get the snow and precipitation but the problem is people in places like California have gotten lazy or expected the same thing which can bring disasters upon people not prepared for an "Old Fashioned" winter like this one.
In the 1980s on my 2 1/2 acres at 4000 feet in Mt. Shasta we regularly got up to 7 feet of snow at one time which is why most people built A Frames there because this is enough to collapse most roofs if no one is there to shovel snow of an ordinary roof.
I have also seen 12 or more feet of snow in the little city of Mt. Shasta at 3500 feet as recently as 1992. People's roofs in town were collapsing right and left if they couldn't get up there and some likely had to go to the hospital falling off of roofs or having heart problems because at 12 feet in a single story house you have to throw snow up 5 or more feet to get it off the roof and to take the weight off the roof so the roof doesn't collapse. We also had to shovel out parking places or you would never be able to drive your car or truck even around town. Imagine shoveling by hand 12 feet or more of snow or even having to snow blow that much. Snow blowing wouldn't work most of the time because the depth of snow would "put out" your snow blower as you went into snow that deep unless you went into it a foot or two, let it collapse and then bring that up that fell each time. But, even then you have to have some place to blow the snow to and that was another problem.
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