5-27 snowing

5-27
It has been snowing for the last two days.  Everything is covered in angel dust and is absolutely beautiful.  Today most of the roads were closed coming into the park so people were madly canceling their reservations.  At one entrance the rangers wouldn't let people in unless they had snow tires.  Yesterday there was a head on accident plus a trailer hauling horses went off the road.  The rangers closed the road between Mammoth and Norris and several people got stuck between the closings, the rangers had to drive down and lead them back to Mammoth.  It has been a mess.


To top it all off last night around 7:30 one of the married couples was popping corn and it set off the fire alarm in Aspen Dorm.  We all had to go outside.  The snow was falling so hard and the flakes were so big that everyone was covered in less than a minute. Fortunately ND and I ran into our room and got our coats and umbrellas before heading out the door.  They finally told us to go into the dorm next door until the fire department got there.  If it had been a fire the dorm would have burned to the ground in the time it took them to arrive.  We got the "all clear" about an hour later and headed back to our "nest."  Oh the fun we have here!


By this afternoon all the snow has melted.  Someone said it might snow again tonight but I doubt it.