(From the AP) Chris Rivest’s father sent him from San Francisco to the family vacation cabin near the Sierra Nevada crest with a seemingly simple chore — clear it and the driveway of snow. Easy for him to say. When Rivest arrived earlier this week at the cabin near Soda Springs, about 90 miles northeast of Sacramento, the snow was so deep it nearly touched the power lines crossing in front of the cabin. Snow was piled at least 10 feet high on top of the deck of the A-frame home.
“My dad wants me to clear the deck,” the ponytailed 21-year-old said Monday, as he labored to clear the driveway with a snow blower. “How do I even begin to do that? Where would I put the snow? This is absurd.”
Absurdly deep is how Sierra residents and travelers might describe this season’s snowfall, which is setting records at some ski resorts and nearing records at official gauging stations.
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