Imagine How The Donner Party Felt
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Imagine How The Donner Party Felt
Topic Author: Auburn Hutton
Posted: 8:56 PM Jan 4, 2008
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This is the story, of three broadcasters, stuck under one roof in Truckee California. It goes like this: We show up Thursday, expecting a butt ton of snow, but are only greeted by a butt ton of rain. It rains and rains and rains...and we feel like we should build an ark...and it rains and it rains and it rains...and we swim around awhile (okay so not really)...and it keeps raining. So we're feeling sick of all the rain and we head up to the Donner Summit, so we could see what those people must have felt like before heaters and thermals and hand warmers were invented. When we are greeted with sharp pieces of ice and snow pelting us in the face, we realize we are lucky. :) Next we drive back to Truckee to show the world (or at least those who watch the 5pm news) what we saw...but it starts snowing, a lot...and it doesn't stop. So we try to show the world what we saw on Donner Summit, but the satellite won't work...too much snow I guess. :( So we are sad, because we saw some really amazing stuff here and met some really amazing people here...and we don't even get to show you. Sorry.  But then again, think of the Donners...wow, we're all pretty lucky. Ciao.

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  • by todd Location: sparks on Jan 7, 2008 at 04:36 PM
    The donnor party was drinking absinthe. Thus the dining experience. Weather had nothing to do with it. A butt ton of absinthe.
  • by Carol Location: New England on Jan 7, 2008 at 08:48 AM
    I follow the western Nevada weather as I have been in Tahoe and Truckee several times my favorite place on earth those mountains was thinking of the Donner party a lot over the weekend imagine a storm like the one in the Sierra this past weekend except in October...and then a a bad winter to follow hard to believe any people made it over the pass at all
  • by Auburn Location: KOLO on Jan 6, 2008 at 10:44 AM
    Yes, forecasters use it to measure the size and width of a storm, in "buttometers." Thanks for your post! :)
  • by Reno Resident Location: Reno on Jan 5, 2008 at 09:51 AM
    Is a "butt ton of snow" a meteorological term?
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