Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Boy.. I sure hope they don't get... stuck.

 

Something like that...old day long. Tiresome.

 

Nice. I even see myself playing there.

 

I had a load booked for today that would have taken me over Donner Summit, but I checked the weather and decided to stay home instead. That's basically a normal winter day over Donner. It has the highest snowfall of any place in the US. On particularly wet winters, you drive through that area in a tunnel. The snow is piled up 15-20 feet on each side of the highway.

 

You Northern Californians should be glad about all that snow up there. That's your water supply, isn't it?

 

I had to chain up a few times...but actually here in the Donner pass I was once very, very glad that I had chains on...the ride was with confidence and the wintery landscape was spectacular. The snow was so white...purely white.

 

Southern California actually takes more of the northern California water than we do from our own back yard. Spring snow runoff fills up the reservoirs in the foothills for a huge percentage of our water supply. We should have many more reservoirs to capture winter rain, but it's all politics. The largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi (Tulare Lake) once sat at the southern end of the central valley not far from LA, but the rivers that fed it were all diverted, and the lake dried up and was converted to farm land. Now the floor of that former lake has dropped like 30 feet in the last 60 years because farmers are sucking water up from underground which makes the surface land sink. The entire central valley from far northern to southern California was once rivers, lakes and marsh until around 100 years ago, and now it produces most of the fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts for the US and the world. But the environment is paying a huge price fro all of that farming.