THE OFFICIAL 20/21 TAHOE SKI & SNOWBOARD THREAD. PANDEMIC SCHMANDEMIC!

[fomofo]

Footage from yesterday and last night posted this morning by KTVU San Francisco...



KTVU just had a live report with Kevin "Coop" Cooper from the North Upper Truckee Road area. No fire there, and very little wind at this point.

Not surprisingly the road cams between Placerville and Meyers are "unavailable" at this point, but starting with the traffic circle in Meyers at 50/89 you can at least get a glimpse of the conditions at a few intersections in the SLT area...

Caltrans CCTV Map

[MTT]

Holly shit. Meeks bay and Tacoma. Is a bunch of people and homes. I lived in Timber Land when I was real young. It’s not that much further. Throwing out positive vibes hoping for a miracle

[LongShortLong]

Please, if anyone sees that Hwy 89 anywhere between Truckee and South Lake Tahoe gets closed down please post here.

Closed. Mandatory to Tahoma. Includes Tahoma.

[SchralphMacchio]

Makes sense to clear the bottom end of West Shore now and keep roads open for crews in case anything spots north of Fallen Leaf and makes a run later.

Same with Pioneer. Anything jumping over to east side of XMas Valley will be really threatening.

Praying for Tahoe.

[mr. hankey]

updated evac/warning maps from this morning. More of S. lake in Red.
https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/...1061036867063/
Edit - removed Inciweb map, since Calfire's map is more recent.

[RockChalk]

Only structure/infrastructure damage at S@T was a maintenance garage. Snow guns appear to have saved everything. Wow.

Our family place on N Upper Truckee is right in the cross hairs, extremely sad and terrifying to think of the damage that will be done if/when this monster drops past Echo Lake into the Basin and Xmas Valley

[climberevan]

Facebook links suck. Almost all of S Lake is under the order now. My house near Carson is already spoken for by 2 families but there is plenty of space in the yard for RVs or tents if anyone is in need.

[liv2ski]

^^^^^ Fuck. Stay safe people.

[thefrush]

Only structure/infrastructure damage at S@T was a maintenance garage. Snow guns AND FIREFIGHTERS* appear to have saved everything. Wow.

Slight edit.

[RockChalk]

Slight edit.

Absolutely - true heroes.

[muted reborn]

Snow guns appear to have saved everything. Wow.

There was a bunch of firemen/women stationed there helping too.

[old goat]

Has there every been a ski area to burn down? Fire came right to the boundary of Crystal ski area a few years ago. Curious how well those lift towers hold up to the flames.

We were in Courmayeur when they shut down a gondola and our run back to our van due to a fire under the lift. AFAIK no damage to the lift.

Yup that’s been the situation. Order has also expanded East more along pioneer trail corridor.

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Why the warning rather than mandatory in east SLT? Those folks still have a good escape route compared to the people along the west shore? They wait too long and lots of people burn to death in their cars.
Most of the people burned out of the Tahoe Basin are probably gone for good--real estate prices and construction prices will be even more expensive.

[SchralphMacchio]

Sliver of positive news to keep your spirits up:
Camp Sac was saved!

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article253853548.html

[SchralphMacchio]

We were in Courmayeur when they shut down a gondola and our run back to our van due to a fire under the lift. AFAIK no damage to the lift.



Why the warning rather than mandatory in east SLT? Those folks still have a good escape route compared to the people along the west shore? They wait too long and lots of people burn to death in their cars.
Most of the people burned out of the Tahoe Basin are probably gone for good--real estate prices and construction prices will be even more expensive.

I suspect it’s to stagger traffic

[lepistoir]

Red flag warning extended through Wednesday 2300hrs

[mcski]

Sliver of positive news to keep your spirits up:
Camp Sac was saved!

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article253853548.html

Amazing. My buddy posted a pic of what he was sure was his house in flames last night, but it was still standing without any damage this morning. Hard to believe

[fomofo]

Sliver of positive news to keep your spirits up:
Camp Sac was saved!

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article253853548.html

In that spirit here's another...

Kirkwood Mountain Cam

Looking amazingly clear now, and intact!

Thx LongShortLong for posting about 89. Doesn't hurt to get the word out as many places as possible.

ABC 10 Traffic Update 08/30/21 11:24am
Traffic builds on US Highway 50 as Caldor Fire prompts evacuations

ABC 10 Caldor Fire morning update | Monday, Aug. 30

[east or bust]

Slight edit.

This.

I checked into the S@T webcam sometime after midnight and the 1hr time lapse showed a group of about 20-30 crew members up there getting shit done. They are true badasses.

[lepistoir]

Stateline now mando
https://twitter.com/calfireaeu/statu...014522886?s=21

[MTT]

Stateline now mando
https://twitter.com/calfireaeu/statu...014522886?s=21

I am starting to think they are now overreaching. It’s going to have to be very serious before Nevada tells Harras. Etal that they have to abandon the hotel casinos. I don’t believe it will happen

[heckacali]

TTUSD (north shore/truckee) just postponed the start of school from tomorrow till next tuesday (at this time) .

I just looked at the caltrans cam for 50 E @ ski run, it's a parking lot.

Vibes S lake mags.

[heckacali]

I am starting to think they are now overreaching. It’s going to have to be very serious before Nevada tells Harras. Etal that they have to abandon the hotel casinos. I don’t believe it will happen

Harrahs can do whatever the fuck it wants.

The staff and employees, the presumed residents of S Lake, will hopefully tell them to fuck right off and take carevof themselves and their families and GTFO.

[fomofo]

I just looked at the caltrans cam for 50 E @ ski run, it's a parking lot.

Don't know if there's a plan in place to do it efficiently/safely, but opening up another eastbound lane on 50 from the Y to Kingsbury would be a very good thing right about now.

The staff and employees, the presumed residents of S Lake, will hopefully tell them to fuck right off and take carevof themselves and their families and GTFO.

1000%! Time to go! When the winds really pick up later who knows what will happen?

SLT Google Map w/Traffic

[SchralphMacchio]

I am starting to think they are now overreaching. It’s going to have to be very serious before Nevada tells Harras. Etal that they have to abandon the hotel casinos. I don’t believe it will happen

25k people and only 3 roads out, red flag winds and as low as single digit humidity forecasted through Weds night, winds pointed right at town, pray tell me what exactly is the overreach?

[SchralphMacchio]

I live right near the McKenzie River, when we had single digit humidity and big winds last year the fire ran 20 miles downriver in 12 hours.