Snow on the Playa

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:05 am

The Gerlach webcam seems to be showing snow on the ground. It is dark at this time and I could be wrong, but in 1.5 hours sun will be up and then we can see. If gerlach has snow then the playa has .........(our little dry lake bed might have waves of water soon)

nice smooth playa for nighttime eyes closed bike riding. look mom no hands, no feet, can't see...weeeeeeeeeeee (it's been a few years since conditions have been great)

Post by **AntiM** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:34 am

Eh, we have snow here this morning and it is the same storm front which traveled across Gerlach. So probably. I am so fucking sick of snow.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:29 am

yes it snowed last night...everythings all pretty white...but my head hurts and its f'in cold...damnit

BigCock · Post by **BigCock** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:20 am

K-mom · Post by **K-mom** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:09 pm

Hmmm its snowing in the desert and I'm sitting here in Canada with the sun shining and about to go on a bike ride ..... and its February you say?

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:38 pm

The USA has been naughty, and is now being punished with a snowstorm! We're getting an ICE AGE, I tell you! (Canada is exempt, as is Mexico, and, well, the rest of the world. Only the US of A is getting the ice sheet.)

B.

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:20 pm

There was a picture posted a couple of years ago of the Gerlach office with snow on the roof & porch. If they were to ever put blank cards on the Marketplace page with that image, I would by them by the gross. I wanted to use that for my Christmas card more than I wanted to breathe.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:01 am

Oh, please, kiddies. Northern Nevada gets snow every winter.

Lorgasm · Post by **Lorgasm** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:41 am

Snow in Nevada?!!?
Another reason to live there!!!! Woohoo. Sign me up.
Friends, the vibe, the burn, the mountains, the air, and SSSSNNNOOOWWW!!!!!

Lets get a fire started!!!!!

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:32 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:Oh, please, kiddies. Northern Nevada gets snow every winter.

Oh yes it does - when I was a kid we used to revel in the stuff.

Oh - and when I lived in Reno I slid my butt down the hill from a snow and ice storm - ahhh, the good old days. :)

The other night the storm passed thru the bay area - big, huge, wet sploppy drops here. I could only think of all the wonderful white stuff over the hill!

And with that... you can *tell* I live on the left coast where the snow rarely falls, I don't have to drag out the shovel to open the garage to get the snow blower out...

Then again, I also loved having a huge fireplace (like pinemom's :) ) and a woodstove in the kitchen and another in the bedroom... YEAH!!!

Off to the store - watching old aussie frontier movies, gonna do a lamb stew tonight. heh heh heh...

bb

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:57 pm

Oh, no I'm sure larry is thinking about- Winter Burning Man!

A 40' Man of Ice that we melt at the end of the festival with flame throwers and Fire Canons.

We even shoot fireworks at it. WOW!

AIIZ

Post by **AntiM** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:12 pm

Too bad the playa's often a lake at that point!

You might like the Utah Winter Solstice Burn, a 20 foot sun and yeah, we shoot fireworks at it!

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:44 am

We got a little snow here last night... best dusting of the season

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:05 am

As if we needed an excuse for more fire... huddle round the bonfire!!!!

Post by **AntiM** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:11 pm

Living on the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake, all the storms which roll across Nevada pick up tons of moisture and drop it on us. Gee.

Bonfire! Oooh, let's get nekkid and dance!

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:59 am

our snow...is just late this yr...and it aint even enough to write home about.

2 winters ago...now that was something. I'd never lived in Reno till 4 yrs ago. Originally from Lake Tahoe 27yrs...so I say to the new neighbors as im unpacking my truck, does it snow alot in Reno, he says where ya moving from, I say sacramento, he says yeah it snows, I say but Im originally from tahoe, he says...no it doesnt snow in reno..laff laff,
then the very next yr it litteraly DUMPS the mother load, the whole town shut down?? Im still out in my 4x4 GMC JIMMY Fullsize doing what I need to do..and just cant figure out why the town has shut down? strange? In Tahoe you get a 9 ft dump and MAYBE...just maybe the kids dont have to go to school that day, here ya get 3 ft and the kids dont go to school all week, the mail stops running, the trash stacks up and unless you have a REAL 4x4 not those 2000 yr models...you"cant"? drive?
strangest thing I ever saw? most reno'ites dont even know how to shovel snow...or so Im guessing... We ended up with close to 9ft at my reno house on the river...it was fantastic. And I was having the best time boondoggin down all the streets, didnt even have to worry about doing a donut or two, as wernt no one on the streets!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

The storm were having right now, is just cold, piss n vinigar, Im just so ready for Spring, Im at the point of if your gonna snow...shit or get off the pot!Or be done with it already!

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:08 am

"...and fire in the sky-y-y...Nah-Nah-NAHHH...Nah-Nah, Nah-NAHHHH...NAh-NAh-NAHHH, NAHHHH NAHHH...."

Oh, sorry....was that out loud?

We finally broke the weather seal around here. I had gotten pretty lax with securing the tarps on the domes, and now they're full of "ice bellies" so heavy that I'll have to wait for Spring to get 'em out. Lots of ice dam problems. But at least the deer are coming around more often, and I watched them playing in the field at about three o'clock this morning. So far they've left my "carbon offset seedlings" alone, but there's still lots of Winter left...

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:25 pm

AntiM wrote:Too bad the playa's often a lake at that point!

You might like the Utah Winter Solstice Burn, a 20 foot sun and yeah, we shoot fireworks at it!

No way, Ya fukn wid mi, anti?

I would like to create a tall man and womn and spray water over it. Imagine the kind of ice sculpture that would make with a little creativity of wind and spray.

Fire and nekked dancing- yes it's all coming back now. How many more days to go?

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:24 pm

Oh no thanks. I've been to the playa in December. Freezing, windy, and the surface was spongy, we didn't dare drive down even to where the gate had been. Did I mention freezing? Bone chilling, cut through my warm coat and underlayers freezing.

Although we stopped at Empire and had sandwiches from their deli and bought Burning Man T-shirts to support the store.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:31 pm

Temp right now in Ogden, Ut 38, temp in Gerlach, nv 35... I think gerlach is more prone to sudden freezes while the Salt lake helps keep things east a little warmer..

current from Gerlach.. it's so pretty!

Post by **AntiM** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:44 am

Yes, our lake acts as a climate stabilizer because there's actually water in it. Snowing big fat puffy flakes outside right now, same storm system that dumped on Gerlach, but well, we've got more moisture, picked up from the lake, so we're getting a lot of white stuff this morning.

We need the snowpack, but with the warm, sunny days between storms, we've lost four people to avalanches in the past week. Dangerous time of year to ski or snowmobile the backcountry. So glad I'm a wimp.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:17 am

AntiM wrote:Yes, our lake acts as a climate stabilizer because there's actually water in it. Snowing big fat puffy flakes outside right now, same storm system that dumped on Gerlach, but well, we've got more moisture, picked up from the lake, so we're getting a lot of white stuff this morning.

We need the snowpack, but with the warm, sunny days between storms, we've lost four people to avalanches in the past week. Dangerous time of year to ski or snowmobile the backcountry. So glad I'm a wimp.

\/News this morning said a lot of snow resorts are closed because of valanche danger..

Post by **AntiM** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:43 am

My fluffy backyard, and it is still coming down:

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:53 am

Your yard looks very beautiful and peaceful.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:58 am

We are getting our ass kicked pretty hard the last four hour..Wind is gusting about 40 knots,rain mixed with snow..Snow is down to the 500 foot level..

SheriffHardinCity · Post by **SheriffHardinCity** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:05 am

Why don't the put up a decent web cam... it can't cost that much... the one they have takes crappy pictures... do we need to have a fundraiser???

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:24 pm

here is our webcam. I've noticed that sometimes it makes the scene darker then it really is. (not many campers at this time of year)

http://www.eaglesnestrvpark.com/webcam.htm

skibear · Post by **skibear** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:27 pm

The gerlach webcam shows snow now -road (dark) even looks plowed.

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/t ... ebcam.html

Big difference from 4 weeks ago when I drove 25 miles across the DRY
playa to Double Hot hot springs at the other end.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:38 pm

We're supposed to get 1-3" tonight and tomorrow down on the valley floor.

You know what I think I'm gonna do? If it does indeed snow tomorrow, I'm going down to the Park Blocks and make a snow sculpture. Live the art you want to see, hail Axios.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:58 am

"Squaw got nine inches over night."

Old joke.