Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Whiteout conditions forecast for Sierra: No safe window for travel until Thursday afternoon
What happens if you live up there, in Truckee, for example? You're snowed in, and you'd better be ready.
A moisture-packed atmospheric river pelted the northern Sierra Nevada with snow Tuesday — and the deluge is expected to persist through Thursday morning.
The National Weather Serviced warned of heavy snowfall, whipping winds and whiteout conditions, advising against mountain travel until Thursday afternoon.
By Tuesday morning, several ski resorts around the Tahoe Basin, including Squaw and Sugar Bowl, reported two feet of fresh snow overnight.
Basin snowfall totals for the four-day storm are expected to be two to four feet below 7,000 feet and up to eight feet at elevations above 7,000 feet.
It's been raining in sheets all day today in Redding. Churn Creek is a brown muddy torrent. Good thing this isn't a cold storm.
Your Good New of the Day: Fiat Chrysler to add 6,500 jobs in major Jeep expansion
- Fiat Chrysler is investing $4.5 billion by adding a new assembly plant in Detroit and boosting production at five existing factories.
- It will spend $1.6 billion converting the Mack Avenue Engine Complex into the final assembly plant for next generation Jeep Grand Cherokee and an all-new three-row, full-size Jeep SUV.
- The move will create 3,850 new jobs at the complex.
Last year, Fiat Chrysler sold just under 1 million Jeeps in the U.S., an increase of 17 percent while auto industry sales overall were up fractionally.
This is confusing
The earliest known remaining Power Wagon
The truck you see here is the earliest known surviving Dodge Power Wagon, the 12th built in January of 1946. Its first owner was the Agricultural Engineering Department of Michigan State University. Its duties during nearly 30 years at MSU are unknown, but the truck was sold in the 1970s to an MSU employee who used it for a couple of decades, and then parked it for a couple more.
It ended up in the hands of Michael Mandzak, a product engineering manager for a Big Three automaker, in 2017. Michael has agonized over how to approach owning this truck. Though rough, it’s still a time capsule of originality. At press time, Michael had more or less decided to get it running and driving well, fix the worst of the bodywork, redo the original MSU markings on the door, redo the upholstery, and let the old truck proudly show off its well-earned patina. It generated a great deal of excitement at the 2018 Vintage Power Wagon Rally.
Thanks, gkurwicki
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