it s the snow load has become too much. it caused traffic jams, caused the roads to be closed, when roads are closed, people want to ski, you re gonna find a way to get around it. they re gonna try to find a way to get around it. people have been stuck in their cars, on roads, that sometimes you can get now when there s five feet of snow in the wind blowing sideways. 17 people spent the night on one stretch of road that we couldn t get to them, because the roads were so impassable, it took another day to get them out. fortunately, everybody survived. but it s been a lot, and we ve had avalanches, with the north south highway, which has isolated several communities. one of the avalanches took out a power source for our residents in bridgeport. they are isolated, they are still without power. they do have roads that are opening up, though, it s been quite an ordeal. you talked about being
the propane tanks need to get a little bit of air, they need to breathe. if they don t, sometimes they explode. then your house is gone. gosh. we just heard that there is more snow potentially to come. still dangerous to come even after that when that snow melts, or potentially, more worrying when you get rain on all that snow. you could see huge flooding here down the road? we could. once the spring comes around, and the snow starts to melt, 16 17 we had probably the creeks, the rivers, the lakes they will overflow. that can be a problem as well. that s something we have to watch for, and learn to mitigate. and to keep people away from the rushing water. turn around, don t drown.
months. it doesn t help. so i kind of lost my patients. and it a little sassy post. i don t regret it. there s also, obviously, a threat on the roads. but then people s homes as well, you talked about roof all inches, what do you mean? as the snow continues to pile up on peoples roofs, roofs that have ten, 20 feet of snow on them, really hard to shovel the roof. if you let the snow pile up, it starts to melt or gets too heavy, it will fall off the even of the roof. you could be standing underneath the eve of a roof, and not get crushed by the falling snow. you don t have to be in a mountain to be hit by an avalanche. you get hit by a rueful, inch or the way the snow could collapse and take on a building. we encourage people to clear their roofs as best they can, also clear their propane tanks.
across the sierra, and some pretty high rainfall amounts right there along the coast. kim? appreciate it, alison chinchar, thanks so much. as allison just mentioned, this lengthy winter storm is already created chaos in the west across california, several days of heavy snow, knocked out power to thousands, made roads impassable in trapped residents in their homes. joining me now is the sheriff corner of california. thank so much for being here with us. your community is situated between the nevada border and yosemite national park. which has been really hard hit by all the snow. describe the conditions in the dangers out there that folks have been facing? well, thank you for having me on. the dangers have been astounding how much snow we received. i live in the town of mammoth lake, about 8000 feet we ve had over 500 inches of snow here. that s half of mammoth mountain, over 600 inches of snow.
from rain into a bit of a snow, ice, freezing rain and rain all mixed together at some point. overall, the heaviest rain is going to be on the south side, yes, the potential for 2 to 4 inches is possible. snowfall is going to be heaviest, up across areas of new england, in excess of a foot of snow is possible. widespread flash flooding is also possible along the ohio and mississippi valley river areas. excuse me. winds are also going to be a big concern, even after the system moves through. apologies here. we are still going to be looking at some wind advisories across many of these states. one thing to note, out to the west, we re getting a little bit of a break right now, but another system is going to be making its way into the west coast, as we head into the weekend. this does include california, which has received so much snow and so much rain in the last few days, that next system is going to bring additional snow, yes, measuring 1 to 3 feet.