The R-C Morning Report

Genoans recommended that the sole applicant for town board, Dave Whitgob, get the job on Tuesday. Whitgob is a three-year resident of Genoa and is presently vice president, special projects, of the California State Automobile Association with offices in San Francisco. The recommendation that Whitgob be named to the town board will be forwarded to Douglas County commissioners for consideration at their Feb. 15 meeting at Stateline.

The Genoa Town Board is an advisory board to Douglas County and consists of five members. Whitgob will replace town board member Jack Pettit, who moved out of the town in December.

Meeting week continues tonight with the Minden Town Board and the Gardnerville Ranchos General Improvement District. Minden meets at 6 p.m. and will discuss, among other things, whether to allow bumper stickers on their garbage trucks. Ranchos trustees will meet at 7 p.m.

This morning the radar is showing a big old blot of green with some specks of yellow running from Chico to Auburn. Another patch is sitting over Modesto. It either hasn't arrived this far east or it's breaking up against the Sierra. There will definitely be snow in the mountains above 6,500 feet and because this storm is coming in low and slow, we may see some rain today in the Valley.

According to a National Weather Service special statement issued at 4 a.m. today, this storm today is just the first in a series of waves expected to last through the weekend. Up to 5 inches of moisture is expected to fall in the Sierra over the next five days. By Sunday, watch out for local flooding and mud slides.

We traded smoke from our own burns to smoke from a burn in Stanislaus National Forest on Monday. As breezes from the west increased they brought the waft of wood smoke into the Valley with them. The pall prompted a smoke check at Grover's Hot Springs at about 1:49 p.m. Monday. The Forest Service has been taking advantage of the still weather to do a prescribed burn on just over 200 acres on the other side of the Sierra.