Monday morning, the Mammoth Mall parking garage adjacent to Good Life Cafe collapsed, crushing the vehicles parked underneath. No people were injured. Mammoth Lakes Fire Department Division Chief Jeff Sutch[…]
Friday. Tenth of March. A section of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s L.A. Aqueduct collapsed. Two miles out of Olancha. The cause: intense rain. “Storm water pooled[…]
Winter snow and rain has cloaked Mono County for weeks. More than cloaked. Splintered. North County and South County indefinitely separated by an avalanche – 395 north of Lee Vining. […]
At the urging of Urmas Franosch, I just finished reading “The Dreamt Land” by Mark Arax. Another 520 pages about water and California. Which is really a story of boom[…]
On February 27th, an avalanche north of Lee Vining brought down a section of metal retaining fence and flooded Highway 395 with 30 to 40 feet of snow and debris.[…]
Jay Jensen, Jim King, and Pat Armstrong knew the Kern River snow survey route well. 40 years for Jensen. Around 35 years for King. 52 years for Armstrong. “One job,[…]
