The Feb. 5, 2024, R-C Storming Report

Genoa, Nev. — This is one of those topsy turvy storms where more snow fell in Carson Valley than in Heavenly Valley. Fredericksburg resident Jeff Garvin reported a foot and a half at his place. Foothill resident Margaret Pross reported 16 inches at 3:30 p.m. I had 14 inches just north of Genoa. Upper Johnson Lane received 13.5 inches and Minden received 25 inches of snow.

It appears from a couple of sources, that highways 395 and 88 have reopened. Highway 50 and Interstate 80 are also open, though all routes through the Sierra, and I mean all of them, are requiring chains or four-wheel drive with snow tires.

Western Nevada College in Carson is going virtual today due to road conditions. The Fallon Campus is expected to operate as scheduled today. County facilities including the Community & Senior Center and the Douglas County Public Library are closed today.

With schools and county offices closed today due to Sunday’s storm, hopefully the traffic won’t be too congested today. If you have to go out this morning, and I do, take it easy. Sunday saw the usual reports of vehicles sliding into ditches, fences, signs, light poles or each other across the county.

Power is out to 19 customers near Centerville and Manhattan Way west of the Gardnerville Ranchos starting at 4:20 a.m. today, according to NVEnergy.com. There is no estimated time of restoration, but the cause is pretty clearly weather related. There was a three-hour outage for around 20 Genoa customers that cleared around the same time the Ranchos outage occurred.

There’s a little bit of everything in the forecast for today that I will sum up with the term, “soupy.” Rain and snow showers are forecast before 1 p.m. and then rain showers 1-4 p.m. and maybe some snow this evening. We could see the sun today and winds out of the south at 15-20 mph, gusting to 35 mph. No more snow is expected, but we’ll see.

Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122.