on this bare pavement your chains get hot and it heats up your tires and everything like that and it tears your chains up up. reporter: further east a gas station was a perfect rest stop for weary travelers some who came from the bay area and were unaccustomed to driving in the snow. the car is not equipped for snowy conditions and i don t know how to deal with this kind of weather. reporter: the weather may have intimidated some but it also provided a spectacular scene for visitors to enjoy. gorgeous. i mean, refreshing, you know, beautiful, you know. i mean, i don t know, looks like something like the movies. just beautiful. reporter: most people were relishing the bounty of new snow and all you can do with it. all the snow because saturday it was like almost no snow. now snowball fights. it s fun. reporter: now, i talked with a chp officer late this afternoon and he told me that today has been a good day on the roads with very few problems, something they tha
rocket and tipped it upside down at the blast off. probably 100 foot flame length. reporter: san bruno fire. disaster so big even commercial airline pilots were calling it in. sounded kind of like a jet engine. high pitch screaming sound. reporter: firefighters reflects on the san bruno disaster. good evening. i m dan. more than 200 emergency personnel rushed to the neighborhood last thursday. many off duty and without knowing what they were rushing into. tonight the incredible story from abc 7. we looked out the back door and could see a fire ball. reporter: the fire ball was just the beginning. initially we are thinking that jet airplane went down from san francisco airport. i personally was thinking it might be a terrorist thing. it appears we have a plane down there in the neighborhood. reporter: it would be more than 20 minute before these first responders realize it wasn t an airplane crash. this thing was blowing out like you wouldn t believe. i would