The winds were raging Friday when many of us were returning from holiday travel. On Sunday the clouds swallowed up the mountains again, reducing visibility to flat white slates of cold sky. Midday on Monday, after six inches of snow, the world glistened white.

Melt turned snow into long icicles hanging like jagged glass teeth off of every horizontal surface, including power lines. Flash flood warnings were read on bulletin boards at the market and Post Office in Frazier Park, but Tecuya Ridge (damaged by the Scott fire) held steady. No flooding was reported.

-Patric Hedlund

More New Year’s Stories:
A harrowing tale of "… what fire?" when Every Second Counted on Eve of 2008.
Quite a party in Randsburg as Five families from Frazier Park set off their new year …. in front of the City Jail.
Also, the Apache Divas celebrated the New Year with morning coffee.

This is part of the January 11, 2008 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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