California Winter Storm Traffic - Lake Tahoe - Donner Pass - I80 - HWY 50 -snowy wrecks
Content from I-80 from Soda Springs to Donner Pass, #california after a #winter #storm hit over the weekend. #accidents occurred all along I-80 prompting the closure of the interstate due to #blizzard conditions. The only route open to Lake Tahoe was Hwy 50 where numerous cars slid on #icy #roads making for near impossible #travel conditions due to #weather. Shots include #trucking stuck in the snow, medic seeking treatment in his own ambulance and cars sliding around. Also huge snow cuts as CalDot #snowremoval is underway with #snow #plowing using the rotary blowers on cuts as large as the massive machines.
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@grapejelly...
Жыл бұрын
Just saw some of your footage on another channel. Unless you're running 2 channels, they've pirated your stuff. FYI kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqab0KqLdbe-es4.html
@Greedygoblingames
Жыл бұрын
Thank you all for watching these idiots who think they know how to drive in snow.
@shelbymccoy3936
Жыл бұрын
I am from Somerset PA where we have lots of snow and 2 ski resorts. I like to see how 🤔you all get around in the snow. I also can see what vehicles not to buy. That first guy had chains on and he couldn't get around. Either his vehicle is bad in the snow or he can't drive.....or both. Having fun with ya 😘 all. Keep the ❄ out there please!!
@shyyanne
Жыл бұрын
Your drone footage is stunning! What drone do you have, if you don't mind me asking? Thank you for providing such interesting content!!
The white Tesla sitting dead with the 3/4 ton diesel pickup is a fitting shot in a snow storm. Lol😂
this is exactly what I was searching for. Footage of how it really looks like and no unnecessary comments. Could watch for hours. Great!
@susanaobeid6770
Жыл бұрын
That's really horrible. Prayer's to victims that can't make it to work. Greetings from Miami how are you doing
That drone footage of the plow train is excellent. That kind of footage was practically impossible back in the day. Now it's everywhere 👍
@alfredtetzlaff686
Жыл бұрын
Yeah!
Is it just me, or do you find pleasure in seeing Telsa owners stuck in the snow too?
@susanaobeid6770
Жыл бұрын
I really feel for the truck owner's abd those that can't work anymore to provide for what his family will feed. Greetings from Miami hope you're good and safe
@californianorma876
2 ай бұрын
Just you 😎🤭✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful to see the snow piling up in the Sierra Nevada. California has needed this for so long.
@indiana091
Жыл бұрын
Too bad most of it will end up in the Pacific Ocean.
@parkaparid7549
Жыл бұрын
@@indiana091 Yeah they need to build more reservoirs
@sylviawelsh9518
Жыл бұрын
California hasn’t built any new reservoirs in 60 years bu5 the population has changed to much for the storage’s.
@anthonytran7566
Жыл бұрын
@@indiana091 I need to capture this snow into reservoirs !!!
@parkaparid7549
Жыл бұрын
@@sylviawelsh9518 Yeah that's the tragic part
Thanks so much for this. I grew up in Truckee CA right off of Donner Pass. How well I remember winters like this.
@robertrrudd2585
Жыл бұрын
Dittos, lived in West Sac. Spent a lot of time up there many years ago.
Anyone that is tackling Donner summit under these conditions is either highly paid or insane .
@rocketman5648
Жыл бұрын
Inexperienced is more like it...
@lutomson3496
Жыл бұрын
Stupid bay area flatlanders and idiot inexperieced semi drivers
@mason7778
Жыл бұрын
Or has a wrong car😎 without winter tire!?
@garyjohnson4575
Жыл бұрын
...or have deep seated longing for bread and milk!!
@VGMurders
Жыл бұрын
There’s quite a few linehaul trucks that go to Sacramento and back to Reno every night. This winter 🥶 is no joke.
Beautiful, and much needed snow! Yay 🎉
Loved that drone footage of the train..Some insane snow..Stay safe Brandon...
Fantastic footage. Thank-you from New Zealand 🇳🇿
@JonathanPetramala
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
Don't slow down - keep going up that hill!
@jasonsabourin2275
Жыл бұрын
Move the steering wheel from side to side.
@leigh3069
Жыл бұрын
Is it bad for motor to Rev it and your right don't slow down in that.
@leigh3069
Жыл бұрын
Love the footage. I'm in Texas. Last year I made down to low water brige, that was it. Probably couldn't make it anywhere else. Had to park my old chevy and walk back home after tying rope round shoes, too slippery!!
@patmcbride9853
Жыл бұрын
When I used to ski, I HATED the stupidity of drivers that stopped while driving uphill in the parking lot with cars piled up behind them. Thank goodness none of them slid back into us.
Thank you for sharing 🤗🇺🇲🙏
@susanaobeid6770
Жыл бұрын
Greetings from Miami hope you're good I feel sorry for those in such condition mostly for the truck driver's and those that cant make it to work.
Love these videos. I can't imagine having to drive in that. But I wouldn't have to drive. My Southern blood would freeze solid and my heart would stop if I opened the door to that 😂. Stay safe everyone .
This is just so beautiful I wish I could retire and live near the snow.... it's so quiet when it snows
@garyjohnson4575
Жыл бұрын
..until the milk and bread panic begins, and the shelves are stripped bare! Everyone must drive! (Never understood what people do with the milk and bread, or why they were without...)
@davidkeeton6716
Жыл бұрын
@@garyjohnson4575 They sure do that in Alabama. I don't know why either.
@christar9527
Жыл бұрын
I wish I could get away from the snow and live where it’s warm and sunny 365 like where I used to live but foolishly moved away from
@kimleone5496
Жыл бұрын
@@garyjohnson4575 I know how to make my own bread, and milk can be frozen. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty either.
What excellent video! Great job covering this series of High Sierra storms!
@susanaobeid6770
Жыл бұрын
It's really a nice video but is horrible there being stocked indoors without going to work. Greetings from Miami hope you're good
The snow is beautiful! Beautiful footage!
@burtcooper612
Жыл бұрын
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
@jmason1770
Жыл бұрын
Yeah! It's beautiful as long as you don't have shovel it, drive in it or walk in it.
@christar9527
Жыл бұрын
I’m in New York. I disagree.
That train shot is SIIIICK
Another outstanding video! You guys always have the best footage! 👍😊
@JonathanPetramala
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
They come unprepared.. they leave in a tow truck.
Glad to see CA getting back to normal. Some of the greatest snowpacks in world history were in CA, but its been way to dry there for many years! Think they had a world record back in 1911 or something like that.
@dylanelliott9589
Жыл бұрын
*recorded history, definitely/probably not world history.
Donner Pass is the last place to drive through a snow storm!
@thornil2231
Жыл бұрын
Donner... Dinner is served.
@suziperret468
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Ha ha! That was my spell check changing the word Donner to dinner!
@thornil2231
Жыл бұрын
@@suziperret468 don't you hate that?
@suziperret468
Жыл бұрын
@@thornil2231 Yeah, but I did edit it to Donner instead of dinner. The comment about dinner is served, was before I changed it. It's still making me laugh!
according to al gore snow is a thing of the past in 2023!!!!!!
Nice, these flying cameras. 😄
Love the drone footage...esp of the trains. WE forget how much this area depends on them in this neck of the woods and mountain areas
Absolutely beautiful
WXChasing Missionary~~ Okay I am Paula Missionary.
I couldn't even imagine taking the already terrifying drive by emerald Bay in this weather
@WxChasing
Жыл бұрын
It's closed, we got as far as possible before turning around. I was hoping to get close enough to drone the the steep slopes to see if any avalanches have occurred but it was snowing too hard and visibility was too low to fly. :(
@sw9172
Жыл бұрын
Or Echo Summit on HWY 50 would be so scary. I would only take I-80 with 4WD and snow tires.
@californianorma876
2 ай бұрын
Yeah, closes seasonally since....I'm 64....
Interesting video! Big LIKE
Absolutely great footage (or whatever it's called digially!) I subscribed.
@californianorma876
2 ай бұрын
Good call!
Exquisite. I wish it had been an hour or two long. Please take care and stay safe. 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎
@WxChasing
Жыл бұрын
Hey Tawni, I have a lot more on the channel and will be adding quite a few more videos this week.
Always fun watching people not used to driving up there attempt to get up ice covered hills in 2wd vehicles with summer tires.
Donner summit near tahoe is the snowiest place on earth with 80 feet of snow on average per year, the donner party had a nice winter here 150 years ago
That's beautiful, I hope no one was hurt
1:00 Just a tip: If you are ever in a situation where a front-wheel drive car won't go up a hill, turn around and go up backwards. Cheers and drive safe in the snow.
@zzoinks
Жыл бұрын
Great tip. I didn't know
@ldero9520
Жыл бұрын
Sorry but it won t make any difference.
@GigaTrope
Жыл бұрын
@@ldero9520 Since the car is naturally going to lean back when accelerating uphill, more weight goes over the part of the car in the back, so you get more traction on the drive wheels if they're in the back. The steeper the hill, the greater the difference.
@FiferSkipper
Жыл бұрын
@@ldero9520 I can say from experience that you are wrong. I once drove three miles up a hill (near Colfax) backwards with my head hanging out the window. After covering m my face in snow repeatedly, I wanted nothing more than to drive forwards but each time I tried the chained front wheels would only slide. Backwards worked and I made it home with an ice-beard two inches thick! Next time you want to spout some nonsense make sure to start out with the phrase: "I don't know what I'm talking about..." then make your idiotic comment. That way we all know what a fool you are before reading the rest of your comment.
@FiferSkipper
Жыл бұрын
@@GigaTrope right on the money!
People just don't know when to stay put~! Or how to drive.
cool drone footage! we live in the valley so they call us flat landers. we have 2 4wheel drives but I will wait until better conditions to visit the sierras. even with chains travel in these storms is difficult to impossible. its been all over the news and people still try and go up, just to get stuck and put them in danger and chp/road crews trying to keep roads open.
Merci a vous pour cette belle vidéo de la Californie très très beaux paysages 🇨🇵 👍
I snuck through last Friday afternoon coming home from Idaho. Glad I beat the closures and chaos!
Wife and I took RT50 home just 20 hours ago - glad we missed the brunt of the storm.
I just love it when city tread makes ice under their tires. Not enough people buy winter tires
Wow that's a lot of snow. I had thought about going up to ski but I decided against it since I had to meet a contractor tomorrow. The snow isn't going to vanish anytime soon.
Hello from Florida
lake Tahoe, - what a beautiful place to live at.
Excellent video recording skills.
@WxChasing
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Andy!
@JonathanPetramala
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
My Dad had an old Jeep he drove to work. He had chains on all the tires, as he had to be able to get to the hospital. We’d have snow up our wazoo’s and school didn’t close, teachers and students had to hoof it in, and we did. Life in Minnesota in the 60’s. We laugh about it now at class reunions, cuz kids have it so easy now.
@marcpikas2859
Жыл бұрын
@@imd1b4uWorse yet are the parents spoiling them giving them all they ask for. The entitled generation created that way doesn’t always appreciate their condition.
@Sushi2735
Жыл бұрын
@@floatpool8307 I lived in a town on the Iowa/Minnesota border. Small world. But, we were townies and had boors 🤣
@Sushi2735
Жыл бұрын
@@floatpool8307 😂 nope, not a cow in sight! Had it easy! But the farm kids were lucky when we had a pile of sow, the buses couldn’t get to them, but off to school we went.
INCREDIBLE!
This snowy wonderland is beautiful, but I don't think I could live in a place that has such harsh winter's with so much snow fall. I was born and raised in the south and currently still living in the south where we don't get much snow. This is my home, the south, but I do love having a little snow from time to time.
@user-wj5oy8qx4m
5 ай бұрын
на этом видео НЕТУ суровой зимы.
Always drive in snow even if you have no place to go ... it is a blast ... and bigtime fun ...
@tombeyer375
4 ай бұрын
Great fun AND good practice with any vehicle, so you know how to handle slips and slides, to get control of the vehicle back again.
Location tags! Great!
@sw9172
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I second that, thank you. So nice of you, WXChasing, to add the location tags. Beautiful footage.
I'm on the Nevada side of Tahoe.. We have needed this so much.. but I am over it. I think we have a break now until the end of Jan.
@xtc996
Жыл бұрын
Then we are going to get Feburied.
Carry a bag of kitty litter.
Lovely. Water coming. Insane people had to go through this.
Is this your drone footage, very nice work
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Nice coverage...guess some like to get stuck and sit in their vehicles ...me. I'd find a place to stay until storm passed.
This is interesting to me because I read a lot and most stories based in areas of night snow, rarely are there any wrecks attributed to weather.
@sheilaedie7408
Жыл бұрын
It’s California, a lot of evil there!
The snow walls are astonishing.
Born raised in Wisconsin , always carry rug samples in your automobile, it s the best traction helper! Never spin your tires , rock back and forth to proceed! And of course you need all wheel drive vehicle in snow country - bottom line always go SLOW !
Oh yeah.....the "good" ol' days of going over Donner while chained up or sitting on the west side of it while waiting for the road to open as a truck driver.
Looks like traveling by train is the best way to go !
@TITAN3084
Жыл бұрын
Not if you drive with the "Deutsche Bahn" - even at good weather German Trains often come too late.. in this conditions - forget it.
Snow is so beautiful…
@susanaobeid6770
Жыл бұрын
Yes it is but it is horrible for those that can't go to work also for those truck drivers that cant move their trucks to their destinations. Greetings from Miami to you hope you're good and safe
Oooh the marinas are all better be open this summer!
Just one question ❓ where are they going in all that snow
Love watching LA snowflakes driving Tesla's with noseason tires, they were told to stay home, but provide endless entertainment. Great vids. Cheers
Is they not use winter tyres?
Let's hope we have a good February and March.
Thumbs up: Subscribed.
Dang...I'm missing out on all the fun now living in the desert, Palm Desert.
My son lived in Soda Springs, then Truckee. But too many scenes like these and lost work days (as a building contractor) made him move to Reno. Fun to watch though.
Which car brands perform best ?
So I want to play in the snow mr and misses donner did this on foot no food ,it's not cool when I go up I aways say hallo donner please keep me safe bless😩😩😩👀
Not abnormal weather for the area.
@xtc996
Жыл бұрын
Most of the homes have a door to nowhere (2 or 3rd story). Just for winters like this one.
Stay safe and drive careful
Cool.
Speaking from experience, to the person maintaining the sno parks, I'm feeling your pain.
I always like cruising around in a blizzard. That is some serious snow fall there.
@heidiho3089
Жыл бұрын
Oh, I hate it so much…🫣😬😬
Many years ago I drove truck over donner pass, I remember the days and no thanks.
This is the kind of weather that forced the Donner party to get snowbound and begin posthumously eating their dead in 1846.
@jareddoran6605
Жыл бұрын
Hence the name, Donner Pass
IMPRESIONANTE
I honestly don't understand how those people got there? Unless you are a local with a 4X4 with snow tires and used to drive in the snow, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING THERE?
CHOO CHOO ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Lake Tahoe. Drought, then fires, earthquakes, then floods, now blizzards. You guys just can't catch a break.
@weirdshibainu
Жыл бұрын
It's called nature...
@xtc996
Жыл бұрын
This is relatively normal for this area and this the break CA desperately needed.
Those people in the SUV’s I guess don’t think about turning around and backing up the Icy hill so the center of gravity shifts to the front wheels and reverse gear is geared lower for torque not speed
@davidkeeton6716
Жыл бұрын
That's why a VW beetle or bus(type 2) just roll right along in the snow.
@dianalesueur2297
Жыл бұрын
I was just wondering if that would work?
Is Reno getting a lot of snow as well?
@xtc996
Жыл бұрын
About a foot.
screaming from across the pond "airdown your tyres you plonkas!!!"
Gotta get those toothpicks from the store right.
I promise you someone is calling that post office looking for their package LoL
super!
This is cozy up to a fire weather💤💤
Was stuck in Reno for 6 days when it got bad in early December. I love the snow and we need it but I won't be driving in it. I understand that some people have no choice. We carry chains but if chains are required to travel my company says stay put. Not worth the headache of going up just to get turned back and the risk of crashing isn't worth it to me either.
It is winter!
At least SOME of them know how to drive in the snow. You can definately see the difference between the regular locals and the visitors.
What happens when all these snow melt? Where do they go?
@Sonoma_Coast
Жыл бұрын
In the mnts. surrounding Tahoe the melt will go into Lake Tahoe then out to the East in the Truckee River which goes into Nevada and ends up in a huge lake called Pyramid lake which is in the Great Basin. The Mountains facing West the melt heads West. Each river except one has reservoirs on them to capture water. Some is released and ends up in the Sacramento or San Jopuquin rivers which eventually go to San Francisco Bay then out to the Pacific. There are also large aqueducts and canals that transport the water to South Cal. or the Farms in the Sacramento valley or other residential users.
I worked at reno on October but when its snow on the pass noooo way jose
been there and done that we made it out in one piece in an old chevy van and no chain up😊😊😆
What happens to all the stuck people there? They just sit there till the snow melts?
If you live in the snow belt, put on the best chains you can buy or sit and spin. You spend $200.00 on fashion sneakers and $20.00 on chains for your vehicle. Great footage!
@xtc996
Жыл бұрын
Chains are for city kooks. 4x4 is the only way to go.
Don't you think some people drive too fast thru this stuff slow down you get their in one piece
@bdawg8907
Жыл бұрын
Slow down too much, lose your momentum and you’re stuck. 😕. Chains and 4WD I guess
@RobertMJohnson
Жыл бұрын
@@bdawg8907 you don't need 4wd if you have chains
@burtcooper612
Жыл бұрын
@@RobertMJohnson brains, not chains
@markthomas207
Жыл бұрын
The worst offenders appear to be the AWD sedans and such. The owners seem to think they are still safe going summer speeds.