‘You Have To Be Totally Prepared Up Here’: Early-Season Snowstorm Hits Sierra

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KINGVALE (CBS13) – An early-season snowstorm is hitting the Sierra, but are we prepared?

“Even conscionable past winter, the mild winter, I pulled retired a clump of radical successful the snowfall who were successful two-wheel thrust oregon thing connected the broadside of the road, stuck,” said Hunter Cearley.

The National Weather Service is calling the tempest 1 of the archetypal “bigger” storms of the season, saying it could bring respective inches of much-needed snow.

However, the wintertime upwind is invited quality for Cearley. He’s acquainted with driving successful the snowfall and has helped respective drivers successful the past.

“People either enactment them connected mode excessively early, wherever they are conscionable driving astir with chains on—which is not bully for the conveyance oregon the road—or putting connected chains excessively precocious erstwhile they are already getting stuck connected the broadside of the roadworthy trying to get retired of the freezing cold,” helium said.

Sunday started retired with gusty winds and gloomy skies successful Emigrant Gap. Clouds could beryllium seen rolling successful implicit the mountainside.

“You person to beryllium wholly prepared up here,” said John Gilmour.

Gilmour, a motortruck driver, hopes for a bully commencement to the snowfall play and ever reminds drivers to enactment alert. He recommends having chains ready, water, and snacks successful lawsuit of immoderate delays.

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“Been caught up present galore times wherever I person to enactment connected the road, and it’s a hazard radical person to deliberation what they are doing. Watch retired for the trucks, they are up present to bash a occupation conscionable similar everybody other is,” helium said.