Talk about snow!!!! In January 1969, the Pacific jet stream bent south and took direct aim at mid-northern California. At Mammoth Mountain Ski area in the Sierras, it snowed on 17 consecutive days and all roads were shut down for over 2 weeks. I drove there from Los Angeles the day the highway reopened, 3 or 4 days after the snow had stopped. I had rented an A-frame cabin for that weekend over a month before. I got to where the cabin should be but could see nothing outside of the 30+ foot deep snow trough that was the roadway. I had to sort of claw my way up the side of the nearly vertical wall of snow to try to find the cabin. When I reached the top of the snow pile, looking down, there it was. Just the peak and a little bit of the front of a second story balcony sticking out of the snow. The entire house was buried in snow except this little bit of balcony. I slid down to the balcony and fortunately, the key worked. In that 17 days of storm after storm after storm, Mammoth had gotten 27 feet of snow.
