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SNOW in LA! How did Mt. Wilson stations do?

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Big E

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Been stuck in doors all day. Did anyone go down because of the crazy weather?
 
Big E said:
Been stuck in doors all day. Did anyone go down because of the crazy weather?
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Wilson gets snow quite frequently in the winter months. The sites are built to withstand most of it... although severe icing can bring down radomes, small utility antennas, etc... and when they come down, they can hit coax and such. The biggest issue is getting up there if needed, although some of the sites are manned and have living quarters with food and such.

This is a big one, though, and I'd love to see some pix of the hilltop.

It's bad elsewhere, too. In Palm Springs, 1.55 inches of rain have fallen, and the record for a day is 2.1 inches and the day is not over... no stations apparently affected.
 
I think there was a song recorded by Jimmy Osmond (the youngest of the bunch) called "It Never Snows In L.A."

Guess a rewrite is in order.........
 
DavidEduardo said:
Big E said:
Been stuck in doors all day. Did anyone go down because of the crazy weather?
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Wilson gets snow quite frequently in the winter months. The sites are built to withstand most of it... although severe icing can bring down radomes, small utility antennas, etc... and when they come down, they can hit coax and such. The biggest issue is getting up there if needed, although some of the sites are manned and have living quarters with food and such.

This is a big one, though, and I'd love to see some pix of the hilltop.

It's bad elsewhere, too. In Palm Springs, 1.55 inches of rain have fallen, and the record for a day is 2.1 inches and the day is not over... no stations apparently affected.
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A simple NO would do.
 
Big E said:
A simple NO would do.
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Actually, it wouldn't. Those not familiar with Wilson (or with Southern CA) don't realize that at about 5100 to 5300 feet AMSL snow is a common thing, so a bit more of it than usual is not anything stations are not alreadyprepared for.

It's like people visiting Palm Spring sin June when it is 110 and seing snow on the top of San Jacinto; it's not like Cleveland.

I still get odd looks if I tell people I lived right on the Equator and frost or frozen rain puddles were common sigts just at sunrise.
 
Big E: A simple NO would do.

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I can never understand what makes people on this, and seemingly every other board and comment section of news sites,
post snarling, grouchy comments. Perhaps it is anonymity which leads people to take their own miseries out on otgher posters.

David provided a helpful and factual answer. Far more of a contribution than the other poster.
 
I asked a simple question in the LOS ANGELES board..."Did any stations go down?". A normal answer would have been: "KOST was off for four hours!",or " No stations that I know of." This doenst require any knowledge whatsoever of weather patterns up in the mountains. I didnt ask for a history of the tempetures on Mt. Wilson either, had I wanted some information on that, I'd ask a meteorologist. But of course, David wants to show us how much he knows.
 
Big E said:
I asked a simple question in the LOS ANGELES board..."Did any stations go down?". A normal answer would have been: "KOST was off for four hours!",or " No stations that I know of." This doenst require any knowledge whatsoever of weather patterns up in the mountains. I didnt ask for a history of the tempetures on Mt. Wilson either, had I wanted some information on that, I'd ask a meteorologist. But of course, David wants to show us how much he knows.
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If you understood that it snows up there all the time in the winter, and that the dangers are more from winds than snow, you would not have asked the question. I felt it appropriate to give some background as most people have not been on the maountain during snows or at any time.
 
While you guys are going mano a mano parsing responses, I'll attempt to lighten the tone here and note that in Buffalo, we call 16 inches of snow "June." Kinda like Cleveland, eh, Dave?

Carry on.
 
Radknowski said:
While you guys are going mano a mano parsing responses, I'll attempt to lighten the tone here and note that in Buffalo, we call 16 inches of snow "June." Kinda like Cleveland, eh, Dave?
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Except for the slag heaps by the Cuyahoga, Cleveland does not have mountains... Buffalo has those pretty water falls.
 
If we didn't have sidebars, backstories and even partial hijackings,
these threads could get pretty boring:

"Yes."
"No."
"Uhhh, maybe."

Do you really want just a yes or no answer? Not me.*


*: Sorry for the annoying Family Circus reference. ;D
 
Hell -- Should have asked Garth Kemp. Once in a while -- someone that really knows what's going on posts. But most of the time -- it's the same old "show-offs" that can't even read, write or spell their own name, that reply or post. For those that wanted to know -- none of the stations on Mt Wilson went down.
 
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