Californians brace for new round of extreme weather in the wake of last year's record snowfall
Lisa Griggs, who experienced an incredible amount of snow in Lake Arrowhead, California, in 2023, says people are "not taking any chances this time" when it comes to preparation.
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00:00 We talked about California. The state is getting ready for an atmospheric river this weekend and
00:05 into next week with heavy rain expected and the Sierra seeing significant snowfall. Now Lisa
00:11 Greggs and her Lake Arrowhead community endured record amounts of snow last year. Wild scenes just
00:19 continue to come out of California for the last winter season. She joins us now from the mountains
00:25 above San Bernardino. Good to see you again Lisa. Good to see you ladies. I hope you're staying dry.
00:33 We are staying dry and for any viewers that maybe kind of knew we pretty much met Lisa last year
00:39 and we've been checking in with you time and time again so we appreciate you being here again with
00:43 us this morning. Of course we wanted to reach out to you after your experience last year. How are
00:47 you guys now preparing for these storms? Well you know every single time I think people get PTSD
00:53 honestly. Like you know toilet paper, milk, bread, you know the grocery stores it feels like there's
00:59 always a run on that, firewood. I you know I've talked to a few you know of the community people
01:05 in the community they're just like oh my gosh we're stopped up we're not taking any chances
01:10 this time so you know people just try to get out ahead of it and prepare honestly but it's been
01:15 pretty wet and a little wet. Yes and we have a more on the way where that came from and as we
01:22 are still very much in the thick of things for this season what did you learn from last year's
01:27 epic snowfall and how does this year seem different at least the beginnings of this season?
01:34 Yeah I think well the biggest thing that I think we learned as a community is number one how
01:41 incredible our community is of individual lists that actually live here and just you know that
01:48 you would get to know your neighbor for sure that was that was the biggest lesson for me is that you
01:53 get to know your neighbor and you know try to get out ahead of these things. Obviously there's no
01:59 way we could have known that we were going to get 110 inches in five days and and running springs
02:04 got 150 inches in five days. Just I mean there's just you know that storm just did not want to move
02:11 it just kept going around and around and around and around and around but I think you know
02:16 thankfully this seems to be that pineapple express so it's a little warmer and I think
02:21 pretty much everybody up here has just been praying for rain I mean truthfully just rain.
02:26 Yeah I mean that that brings us to our next question when you look at our actual weather
02:29 forecast for this next storm ascending into early next week what is it that you are most concerned
02:34 about and is anyone kind of just planning to maybe leave ahead of the storm as we head into the
02:39 winter season? Yeah you know I was in Pilates class yesterday and one lady said she had already
02:46 pre-planned a trip to Cancun. Oh I love that. So I was actually a little bit jelly. I think mostly
02:55 the concern is mudslides you know when there's a lot of rain and there's a lot of water we tend to
03:00 have a lot of mudslides so that's the biggest thing flooding and mudslides. Understood yeah she has
03:06 room for the three of us we could just go to Cancun. We'll all hop down there really quick
03:10 escape the storms together we'll have a grand old time. Yeah I mean Pilates and then going to Cancun
03:15 I need to I need to move to Lake Arrowhead. Lisa we appreciate just so much for joining us of course
03:20 we want everyone to stay safe out there and we do just appreciate you being with us this morning.
03:24 Stay safe. Thank you ladies.