Monday's storm left snow along Foothill Road as shown in this photo taken by Margaret Pross. Carson Valley could see more of the same on Friday and Saturday as yet another big storm makes its way inland.
Genoa, Nev. — After more than 50 hours of work, the Vacation Home Rental Advisory Panel approved final code 5-0 on Wednesday and forwarded it to the planning commission. Whatever the fate of that work, the five volunteers on that board put in significant amount of work and that deserves a lot of respect.
There are road controls all along Highway 395 and. of course, at Lake Tahoe. Snow tires and four-wheel drive will be sufficient in the Valley. Douglas deputies helped get a pickup unstuck at 50 and Kahle this morning, so take that as a sign to be particularly careful upstairs.
Light flurries are drifting in the breeze this morning and it looks like we may have already got our accumulation of a half inch, as yet another storm looms on the horizon.
I’ll follow up this morning on a collision reported around 6:40 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 88 near Dressler Lane. It appears California Highway Patrol is the investigating agency.
The Carson City Visitor’s Authority is hosting an essay contest for the first Mark Twain Days Festival for April 21-23 in honor of the 160th anniversary of Samuel Clemens’ arrival in Carson City. There’s categories, rules and other such, which you can find at VisitCarsonCity.com/Literary
The winter weather advisory for Carson Valley takes effect 4 a.m. Friday and will last until 10 a.m. Saturday. We could see as much as 2-6 inches of snow in the Valley and 4-12 inches above 5,000 feet.
Today is mostly going to be about the wind, which is expected to be 15-25 mph, gusting to 40 mph at times. The snow isn’t supposed to start until around 10 a.m., but it doesn’t wear a watch. The forecast calls for partly sunny skies and a high temperature of 29 degrees.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122
