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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Are they in Placerville?
I ran the American out of Chili Bar a ton in the mid to late 70's, early 80's.
I love that part of California....my Aunt lived Pollock Pines for decades.
I took this picture from my neighbors J-3 over fiftenn years ago - you can see the problem!
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The folks live in Lincoln which is about an hours drive time the other side of Loomis northeast of Pville.
That is a nice area of the American River. I drive the 49 from Placerville to Auburn every work day. The Coloma/Lotus areas get all clogged up traffic wise. This is the season of blue hairs, motorhomes and visiting rafters sightseeing the 49. That only means I need to give myself more time to get to work. Then if you add the packs of spandex monkeys that take everything over and run their own rolling roadblock cockblocking everybody, that is a whole other issue.
Now, looking at the pic and knowing nothing about crops. I would say it appears as if the topography naturally drains right towards the Potomac. I see your point about things ending up in the Bay. Centuries of farming can have that type of effect.
Cheers
My son’s wife’s family all lived in Pollock Pines. They just recently moved over to Goodyear, AZ after my son and their daughter were married and he retired. In fact this past winter, we all saw a side of humanity from the valley and Bay Area, we really never hope to see again. There were a series of winter storms that hit the region causing US-50 to be closed due to avalanche risk and mitigation. Freeway sign boards, social media of all three major L.E. Agencies and the local media channels were all warning folks of the weather and asking/telling/requesting/ pleading that everyone stay out of the region. Heavy snow, winds, weakened trees caused multiple and multi day power outages.
So do you think anyone listened????? Oh hell no! None of that stuff applies. Everyone still came into the hills for the snow. Wasn’t the zombie apocalypse, the 200’ tsunami, alien invasion.........snow. The freeway was closed and insanity issued. Locked every single road up and people were doing barbaric things to residence and businesses. People were defecating on porches, fights, vandalism, etc.
Our road that goes by our home was closed due to major repairs, and thankfully they closed the road prior to our driveway as we requested. With a circular drive away, we knew that people would be using our driveway as a turnaround. We had one guy in a Jeep threaten us with physical harm if we did not open the gate for him and that he can go anywhere just because he has a Jeep with big tires and a pretty paint job. By all of his accessories, he hasn’t seen anything more traumatic that the curb at the local valley shopping mall. His green halo ringed headlights were just too clean[emoji1787][emoji1787]. When he threatened to beat my ass and run over my Chevy Volt all over the locked gate that closed our road, my wife responded before I could, by saying that would be the biggest mistake he could possibly make. I was laughing so hard because there was absolute no delay in her response. Her crazy matches my crazy just perfectly. Oh yeah, there were three illuminated sign boards advising of the closure on the road too. There were time six or seven cars were stacked up. The ones pulling trailers were the best to watch. We gave up being nice after the first week of non reading drivers getting all upset they could not bypass traffic via the road that runs by the airport.
Here are some drone shots of the chaos that engulfed the local Pollock Pines residents.
Absolute insanity at its finest!
We are at 2680’ and we had a good amount.
