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That's wild! I often wondered how folks deal with snowfalls that tremendous. It's a meritorious man vs. nature battle.

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Truly. But summer and autumn pay us back with moderate summer temps, gorgeous leaves in autumn, and lots of beautiful wildlife that migrates back up the hill.

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I hear ya. I have a friend who lives in Lake Tahoe. Every year she gets buried under a dozen feet of snow and every summer she risks the fire season, but she can't imagine a prettier place to live.

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An epic worthy of Homer!

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My husband and I both thank you.

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This was riveting, Sue. What year was that?

It was a good thing you did not get bogged down in Donner Party details, btw. Kept the narrative lean and focused.

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Yeah, if people want DP details, they can visit the Donner State Park museum. It's quite a story that has been mutilated by history and Hollywood. As for the year, it was somewhere between 1998 and 2005. There's a definite flood/drought cycle that can be seen on a chart I think the bagel shop has posted on their wall. A regular S-curve formation. In the five years or so around when we moved off the hill, 2010 to 2015, severe drought socked in and left our Hobbit House bare of snow through most of the winter. Truly spooky. Now I think it's returning to a more abundant snowfall, but I don't know if it will ever return to pre-2000 levels. Truckee used to be the five coldest places in America, but no longer. Warming has come to the I-80 corridor. Makes sense, though. There's a lot more population growth and housing along that part of the Sierra Nevada.

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