"STRANDED AND ISOLATED!!"

azsnowman · #1 Postby **azsnowman** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:46 pm

I can HONESTLY say for the FIRST time in my LIFE we are STRANDED and ISOLATED from the outside world :eek:

I have 43" on level ground with 64" DRIFTS, "YES........64" DRIFTS!" I have NEVER in MY LIFE seen THIS MUCH SNOW......

Every single road leading into and from Pinetop are TOTALLY locked down.....no traffic is allowed on the road due to the drifts.

Good Lord willing and the POWER company willing, I will TRY to post photos tomorrow......tonight I am POOPED!! Worked a 14 hour shift doing traffic and spent the last 2 hour hours setting up roadblocks on the main highway.

Stay TUNED 8-)

txwatcher91 · #2 Postby **txwatcher91** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:49 pm

azsnowman wrote:I can HONESTLY say for the FIRST time in my LIFE we are STRANDED and ISOLATED from the outside world I have 43" on level ground with 64" DRIFTS, "YES........64" DRIFTS!" I have NEVER in MY LIFE seen THIS MUCH SNOW......

Every single road leading into and from Pinetop are TOTALLY locked down.....no traffic is allowed on the road due to the drifts.

Good Lord willing and the POWER company willing, I will TRY to post photos tomorrow......tonight I am POOPED!! Worked a 14 hour shift doing traffic and spent the last 2 hour hours setting up roadblocks on the main highway.

Stay TUNED

WOW, I have never seen 43" of snow on the ground. I am sure it is neat to see that much snow. I am glad you are finally getting some much-needed snow.

azsnowman · #3 Postby **azsnowman** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:49 pm

BTW.....for you Phoenix people, watch News Channel 12 at 10pm........yours TRULY was ON t.v. today :lol:

I was working an accident when I turned around and this *jerk* had the camera RIGHT in my FACE :grr:

I asked to PLEASE backoff.....he was TOO close!!

Dennis

TT-SEA · #4 Postby **TT-SEA** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:52 pm

Feast or famine!!

cheezyWXguy · #5 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:19 pm

wow!!! I lived in TX my whole life so I have never seen even more than 7 or 8 inches!!! Im jealous!! Dennis, it looks like youll have to change the part of ur profile that says u live in the brown, dead mountains of Az, Pinetop

LTHLBLU · #6 Postby **LTHLBLU** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:50 pm

Yea, thats nuts, thats how much reno got last year and it was freaky. The roads were hard to pass on even for 4x4s. This is one powerful low.

#7 Postby **coriolis** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:01 pm

Thatsa lotta Arizona snow man.

#8 Postby **azskyman** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:02 pm

Hey Dennis...you take it easy up there! The precipitaiton is welcome, but not in doses like this. That's the nature of desert weather. Never anything normal...just all the extremes.

Be safe, and just stay in and stay warm.

azsnowman · #9 Postby **azsnowman** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:44 am

OMG, OOOOOOMG!!!

I literally CANNOT SEE out of my FRONT windows :eek:

It's 0442 MST and from what I can see, As God as my witness, we have DRIFTS OVER 7 "FEET" tall in places..........I hope the power stays on long enough to post ONE picture to prove it :eek:

azsnowman · #10 Postby **azsnowman** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:54 am

Just in off the scanner and radio.........we had 2 deaths overnight and the PLFD is still on scene, we've had 4 roofs "CAVE IN" from the snow resulting in the 2 deaths in one house :cry:

I received a call from our dispatcher wanting us to go out and assist but I can't, I literally cannot get out of my driveway.

I am not complaining at ALL, trust me but when a system this large hits and people are dying.........it's not good.

#11 Postby **azskyman** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:59 am

Good morning Dennis.

The worst is over. Now today the region will begin to see how bad it really is up there in your neck of the woods!

I see Flagstaff offically had two feet. Suspect you are right in your assessment of much more with you being up against the rim itself and having elevations above 10,000 feet to your east.

Be careful. Sorry to hear about the loss of life as a result. Who would have ever thought it?

Scorpion · #12 Postby **Scorpion** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:49 am

Wow. Thats amazing. Saw similar snow amounts in March '03 way up in the White Mtns.

quandary · #13 Postby **quandary** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:41 am

On the bright side, at least half of the snow you're supposed to get in a season has fallen. Now just another few smaller storms and we should break the drought at least in part.

KWT · #14 Postby **KWT** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:07 am

Intrestingly the north and west of the UK has also sen a fairly large dumping today compared to normal snow events, with 13 inches measured in Glasgow last night, we rarely see that much snow from one snow event.

azsnowman · #15 Postby **azsnowman** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:45 am

here's the total at 0830 MST time.....and it's STILL coming down :ggreen:

cheezyWXguy · #16 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:47 am

wow! 41 inches of the white stuff! lucky!!

azsnowman · #17 Postby **azsnowman** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:48 am

And here's Meshell!! Notice the pile of snow behind her? That SHOULD be our Dodge Ram :eek:

azsnowman · #18 Postby **azsnowman** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:50 am

Notice the very left of the picture.......that's a 7 FOOT fence :eek:

I have 2 drifts OVER 8 FEET now........

x-y-no · #19 Postby **x-y-no** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:30 pm

Wow ...

Better late than never, I suppose! :eek:

#20 Postby **coriolis** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:40 pm

Watch yourself Dennis. I hope you have a snow blower - that is if you can get to it.

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