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Christ I've got 3 feet sitting around my house right now. A few days ago it was up to my shoulders. The Pacific Northwest has been getting hammered the past month. Our local ski area got 200 inches of snow in the past month.

"If the 69.3 inches of snow piled up in Mount Shasta City this past January was not enough for winter enthusiasts, local National Weather Service observer Frank Christina says to expect more of the same for both February and March.

The official measurement of 69.3 inches was the most accumulation of snow since the 76 inches that fell in Mount Shasta in 1968, according to Christina.


Not counting drifts or pile-ups, Mount Shasta had 35 inches on the ground as of Jan. 31. The Mt. Shasta Ski Park, another 3,000 feet or so up the mountain, was reporting an accumulation of 259 inches of snow at its highest elevation as of Tuesday morning. That's 21 1/2 feet. " --Mt. Shasta Herald

Ya, I love how down here in Washington state the passes from one side of the state to the other keep getting closed. It seems like it takes them two or three hard days of working around the clock to open them up and then by the next day more snow dumps on them and they have to close them all over again.