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Be careful out there folks.

I think the truckers at least thought chaining up would work. Surely NOT. At least they have a cab to stay warm, etc. But the passenger cars have NO business there!!! So they have to run fuel to stay warm, no food or toilet!! WTH is wrong with these idiots!! 😮😮😮

Oof. The state snowplow/grader towing the semi says it all.

man, i used to drive a semi over that route and ive never seen it that bad.

You have to remember what state this is filmed in...

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possibly need ten days of rations if on top of pass...

Skiers gotta be the first one to lay tracks on fresh powder!

Remember the Donner party. Things have not changed much.

No doubt, while filming it for the "Gram". 😂🤡

Hey, I lived in California on the strand (Cornado), and people got coolers and lounge chairs to have a party on the beach, to watch the tiddle wave come in. I evacuated to higher ground and fortunately for the idiots it did not happen but was out in the ocean. Back in the early 80's after Alaska had an earth quack. People need protected from themselves. In Florida people have hurricane parties, with kids. Get drunk and party during it. Sad world we live in sometimes.

​@@leem200 I got drunk during Irma and Ian but that's only because I work in a hospital and have to stay. Trust me, getting drunk makes it go by faster.

LOL so true and so funny

Now that's funny, but true

For real 😂

@@sheilaharrison8547 Maybe someday I will.👍👍

This would be the kind of book I would buy at the gas station in the area...this and ghost stories.

I feel sorry for the Trucker’s. It’s their job to drive, but not in this kind of weather. I really don’t understand the cars. Insane.

@@georgespalding7640 You ought to do that.

The packies go anyway- and get stuck

The trucks are what ticks me off the most here. Not only are they more likely to get stuck, but once they are they are much more difficult to get moving again. As far as regular passengers they should have no less than awd/4wd with snow tires on every wheel. Tires chains can malfunction. They should also have experience driving uphill in deep snow, I don't care about how much snow you get in the midwest with ZERO hills to navigate, they change the game quite a bit. EDIT: I didn't mean don't use chains also, but I don't trust only using them on a car that is otherwise no good in the snow.

Agreed, trucking companies & even private operators should be fined heavily if they are on the road. Get your employee a room, tell them to sit it out and you will cover them until it is over.

So, a little fun fact, drivers are absolutely in control of shutting down if conditions are bad and there's nothing a company could do about it. Even if the company retaliates, which they're not allowed to do, the driver can sue the company. The FMCSA rule book clearly states that a driver can shut down in bad weather and there's nothing the company can do about it.​@@efpwdude

@@DigitalHaze65536Traffic should have been stopped at Auburn California which is elevation 1,234. Forty five years driving in Colorado has taught me lessons in driving on snow covered roads. Studded and sipped tires help. Winter tires help. The two most important factors are slow down and always keep your momentum. In my big rig I chain all 8 drive tires. My preferred strategy is stay home or park in Denver until the road is plowed. Psychologically the best strategy is be humble and realize nature is in control- not you. Hope you are well and safe. Good comment.

@@rayray4192 Thank you. I'm just in the hills of Pennsylvania but I'm over 50 years old so I've seen the worst of what we get. A 500' vertical hill (900'asl) is nothing compared to out west, but it's enough to teach how to drive up a hill. They do a terrible job of plowing so I've had to drive a few miles up with 8-12" of snow on the road, you can "get by" with awd with all season tires here, but if you have to stop you will get stuck. I managed to get it going again on my own but I'm getting too old for that stress, I have a 4wd 4Runner with snow rated tires now. I've always driven slow when conditions are bad, even if you can go you have to be able to stop for something unexpected. Our guard rail is dented 100% of the way from cars smacking into it lol.

Yes, idiots. I would let them know. They are on their own.

a lot of people work in hospitals, care facilities, mail facilities, law enforcement, and local/federal government operations. their work doesn't pause for weather.

@@eyeseverywhere8246 nature is in control no matter your job.

​@eyeseverywhere8246 they don't drive teslas that get stuck and stranded blocking the road. We drive 4x4s with studded tires and could drive through 3 feet of powder and we live up here and are used to it. These people are hopeless.

​@@rayray4192 HAARP and Nexrad is in control.

Thank you and thanks for watching.

@@WxChasing some of this footage is from Jonathan petralamas channel am I wrong?

Or narrator!

Yes, Jonathan petramala and I work together. We end up using some if the same shots but try to make sure our channels are still quite different.

@@WxChasing good stuff

Agree , it just blows my mind the determination,grit, and faith they must of had to perserve in those conditions .

Yup!

And they had no fancy water proof clothing or high tech footwear, and they were basically breaking trail as they proceeded along, moving rocks,trees and brush in their paths. 98.9% of our soft society wouldn’t have lasted a day back then.

​@@FIGGY65 maybe. But they weren't required to go. (The Donner-Reed party)

Well at least they won't have to worry about running out of food.

Looks like it's sitting there dead. Hope everyone brought provisions ya know sleeping bags, heaters, food, water. Should always have supplies while traveling, no matter what time of year.

When I went 2 years ago it was worse than this and the Tesla 3s I saw were going on snow like nothing

Yup. Dumb dumbs.

​@@lixsajoe yup honestly the vehicle barley matters compared to the tires. Tesla or any other awd car with blizzaks or hakkapeliittas will run rings around the most lifted 4x4 with MT or even 3pmsf AT tires on a hillclimb road. The big aggressive blocks on at and mt tires that work great on mud are actually not very helpful on snow and ice.

😂 right!

Here in the States, we are really, really stupid. Really.

This is a stupid country

😂 so true😂

Present day California is completely mismanaged by idiots who are pretending to be competent.

Here, people will think their right to be dumb is violated. Freedom of stupidity is so important here.

Very good question! I would think the only ones out would be the truckers. If they have a load to take somewhere I guess they have no option but to try to make it through. All the others? I saw the prediction of this storm, and advisories for drivers not to drive through it days ago, and I'm thousands of miles away, so why did they chance traveling there?

They are crazy.

"How bad could it be anyway?" to "I have places to be!" to "it will be fine..." people are amazing at telling themselves all sort of bs and believing it

Today's generation of KaliFornians, they thought it was Miami Beach.

​@@gparsons320not true at all for the truckers. Most of them have the option to shut down instead of trying to get thru these situations. We have tire chains but not to get thru these situations but to get out of them. I can't speak for UPS, FedEx and those type of companies but the long haul drivers can shutdown before hand. Headed west we usually stop in the Reno/sparks area until the storm passes and the roads are clear. East bound we stop anywhere before 80 starts going up to Donner pass. All these big rigs ur seeing trying to continue on 80 and getting stuck in traffic, idk what to tell you. If it's me I'm parked at the Petro or TA in Reno and waiting it out. Their reasoning is probably that they have a delivery to make which is going be late anyways or they didn't know it was going to be this bad but it was forecasted days ahead of time. And some of them are just super truckers who aren't bigger than mother nature herself. And besides the hwy signs say the hwy is closed ahead so you can only go as far as the traffic jam.

And are risking the lives of road workers in the process.

🤣

The trick is to not sit still.

😂

That is exactly what I was thinking!

Right?!

I live in KS and they close road for less severe conditions. I hope and pray that people don't die up there.

​@@arcticablueI wonder how long this is supposed to last?

Capitalism is the short answer.

Do you realize how much freight travels on Interstate 80?

@@seeharvester Do you realize how much freight is NOT moving through Donnor Pass on I80?

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Yeah, when that group got stranded there, and the only takeout food available was Donner Kebabs.

Now that I think about it, what an insult too. 😂 Haha, we made it to gold country and we’re voluntarily coming back to ski. 🤦‍♀️

Considering the caliber of California schools. NO

@@fredsanford9224 Real 💯 🤦‍♀️

As forest sump would say: STUPID IS; AS STUPID DOES.

Again. Flatlanders who don't know how to drive in the mountains --- or when NOT to drive in the mountains.

Donner Summit & Donner Lake are still in Northern California. I'm sure at Stateline, NV., Boomtown, and Reno they were going through the same Blizzard! It was down into Southern California and Southern Nevada. Gusty winds over 120, rainy, and lots of snow. 😮 There's more to come. Grapevine, CA (Interstate 5) was probably going through the same thing as Donner Summit. It's the Biggest storm to hit the Entire State of California and Nevada! 😱🌀❄️☔️⛈️⛄️

who says these are californians? most are long haul truckers and anyone could be in those small cars on their way to visit california.

@@maryw.5431 grapevine is fine. lol

CALDOT should ban tandem trailers, bobtails, and empty rigs before things get out of control. Every time I see one of these videos, I notice that the OTR trucks generally have chains on the outside tire of their duals - and they get stuck. The heavy duty tow trucks and snow plows that come to the rescue have chains on every single drive tire - and they get through.

Correction: CalTrans.

The law is on the books already single drive trucks can only pull one trailer & not over 30' in length!!

No "thinking" was involved.

Not folks, idiots

I was just wondering that. What supplies do they have in their cars to prepare for extreme cold for hours and maybe overnight.

Yup. I remember going up to the snow from southern California Beach. My boyfriend was doing doughty and we slid off the road and nearly froze to death. We had thin jackets, no gloves! He was from the upper Midwest snow belt too 😂! We snow camp, ski and backcountry skiing with backpacks. Still, we head for the hills at the last minute to see the snow and been in a few bad blizzards, you'd think we'd learn after 30 years!

@@GlareStarwop I'm from Reno. I KNOW this pass! Perhaps CA and NV schools should teach about the Donner Party. There's a good reason why this pass was named after them...

@jshound1508 they do teach about the donor party. But the eastern Sierra is a sharp climb to the summits, and easy to see the transition into the snowline. But the western Sierra is a long gradual climb. It's easier to get caught. Still, Californians handle weather than the east coast. Californians usually get a motel and few bottles of wine when 6 foot fall, where in New York, people are stranded in 18 inches of snow on flat land. Having boyfriend from the snow belt, I can say they are over confident and don't understand mountain weather. California is full of snow belt transplants. I think they are more excited about snow than us southern California's. It's even worse near the Oregon border than Donner Pass. I was backpacking on the pacific crest trail when 10 foot of snow fell over night. I went to bed in force winds and woke up to silence. My tent was buried in snow. I basically crawled out of the snow to hard rain and made it to a gold camp. That was Oct. 4th. Also, a lot of truckers now are from Mexico and don't speak English to get weather reports and don't know squat about blizzards.

theyll be fine. its not that scary.

Life happens, forecasts change, not everyone is you.

Come on!!!! not everyone is as smart as us is what you meant to say. These people are idiots!

@Timberland1963 - Dumb comment. The world in which most people live is dynamic - maybe your world is static.

@@flickwtchr Nature has a way of eliminating the weak minded, ill prepared.

@@user-ud6ri7qg5b donner pass is closed. these guys are stuck at the summit.

You can't fix dumb

Quite simple really, "You can't fix STUPID!" With ALL the warnings issued, they ALL should be left to figure it out on their own!!!"

You know that thing, common sense? A lot of people have common stupidity…..

Watching this video and smh!

Because people think they're ABOVE something happening to them; 'I can do what I want with no consequences' IDIOTS

This is Subie country. AWD and some good sense & snow experience is what you need. Of course, _good sense_ means not going onto a notoriously difficult pass when you know a blizzard is coming. Still, if there was room to maneuver at all, I would have been creeping forward as long as there were breaks in the whiteout. If I was stuck, I would be very conservative about idling my engine trapped for who know how long. I always pack extra blankets and such in the car in case we get trapped in winter traffic. Best thing is to avoid it altogether.

...Of course, I saw a Subie get towed-out (in this video), so the cars aren't magic. I've been out in snow plenty of times, bit I avoid. And I especially avoid ice on hilly roads: it doesn't matter how good you are, you can't stop a vehicle sliding down a hill unless you bury it in a snowbank.

@@brettany_renee_blatchley I noticed the Subie being towed also and wondered why since the snow did not look that deep. Ice underneath? I've been driving Subarus for close to 40 years and as long as the snow wasn't over the bumper so it had to be pushed, I've gotten through. But even chains weren't helping the trucks so there must have been ice.

I was thinking the same thing!!!

Newsome will just flush it out to sea to save a fish parasite.

Not applicable when everyone is 50 lbs overweight. There lots of calories in fat.

It was a last podcast on the left reference lol

Irony at its best

😂

In this case everyone would break into the semis & get the food inside.

God bless you. Jesus saves

Amazing point of view

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​@@augustwest1895CRINGE!😮😮😮

In the 1800s a family named Donner went West, failed in use the designated route. The family was caught in a blizzard resulting in cannibalism. Some survived. Hence, Donner Pass.

Cause they ate their friends for donner.

Cause sometimes it don't Donner on ya tell your there.

There’s just no precedent. Hey, weren’t there two more in your party earlier when you were complaining about hunger pangs?

God.bless you. Jesus saves

Glad you enjoyed it

Glad you enjoyed it longlife!

Amen. God bless you. Jesus saves

Endtimes. Alot of.people are not that smart or use common.sense anymore! God bless you. Jesus saves!

Born in Truckee. Hi from Mammoth. You know most of the people traveling over dinner are not locals right? And as I keep saying to people making snarky comments about Californians, it's an INTERSTATE!

Amen. God bless you. Jesus saves

More like a polar bear 😅

You mean rescue People,,,, right?????

Yes they were!!!!

For those attentive enough to learn. It is simply idiotic to be stranded up there with all the warnings.

Thank you Irishfiregirl!

I used to use a set every year but seems the big storms are no longer hitting Ohio. Winters here are getting warmer and warmer.

And no warm clothes, or extra fuel, and the Asian guy that seemed to have no idea about how to put the crappy set of chains on with his kid in the jumper seat in the rear, as he ran around with sneakers, not winter boots. Or the guy that needed a tow and was going to hook the tow strap to his mufflers. The democrate party should run them as candidate for their next presidential offering. About as smart as you know who!

Thanks for the sub!

Chasing the Dream?

Will it be the new Ford Lighting...

My sentiments exactly!! Love snow!!❤

They've been in use in North Lake Tahoe area for a long time; came in handy for the storm of the decade in Dec.'96.

@@marymacdonald2379 I can see how handy they would be with deep snow on country roads. Thanks for responding!

God bless you. Jesus saves

@@gregsimmons694 You bet! Jesus DOES save and He saved me!!!

Lots of truckers these days don't read the signs or don't care. Unfortunately.