Sierra Snow Brings Blizzard-Like Conditions

NYACK (CBS13) – Snow, slush, and imaginable for sliding is overtaking the Sierra.

“It’s truly atrocious close now, truly bad. I’ve ne'er had to enactment chains connected my truck,” said operator Christopher Ramos.

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The wintertime tempest successful the Sierra brought drivers to a halt successful Nyack to enactment connected chains — required to question immoderate further up the mountain.

“Sacramento is conscionable rainy, but erstwhile you started driving it started snowing. It’s conscionable truly bad, benignant of crazy, can’t adjacent see,” said Jaqueline Garcia.

Charitie Bolling-Tosuner and her household are heading to their yearly wintertime abrogation successful Reno but it’s their archetypal twelvemonth trying to thrust successful these conditions. She’s hoping her household doesn’t get stuck successful the snowfall portion making their mode to Nevada.

“We are traveling with 10 children so, ohio my God, no! That would beryllium similar the biggest nightmare of each you know? Stuck successful the car with 10 kids successful the snow,” said Bolling-Tosuner.

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Heavy snowfall is prompting proposal from this Wyoming operator connected a 14-hour thrust traveling on I-80.

“Just spell slow, instrumentality your time, don’t beryllium hot-rodding it — that’s the main happening you person to do,” explained John Babinski.

Caltrans warns precocious winds mixed with blizzard-like upwind could bring whiteout conditions. More than 600 Caltrans crews are moving to wide roadways arsenic unit enactment astir the timepiece with the imaginable of 3 to 4 inches of snowfall per hr overnight blanketing the Sierra Monday night.

They are sending 1 informing to drivers:

“Our crews are moving 24/7 to marque definite we are getting the roadways open. But erstwhile we bash person incidents, it could instrumentality respective hours for the roadway to clear,” explained Raquel Borrayo, Caltrans spokesperson. “We urge radical hold their question if they don’t request to. It’s amended to beryllium harmless and get to your destination than not astatine all,” she said.

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Velena Jones