‘Woodstock in Lebec’ after 200 trapped in Grapevine ice

By Patric Hedlund, TME

The Grapevine finally reopened at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 27 after 36 hours of closure due to snow and ice. Families from surrounding cities began packing their down jackets, Christmas sweaters, sleds and mocha lattes for a trip up Interstate 5 to the Mountain Communities.

At the same hour, mountain residents were surveying the damage the snow had done to their properties and getting to work with shovels, saws and plows.

In the wake of the howling winds and snowstorm of Christmas night and the full day after, county roads workers were finally making progress to open the main surface roads that connect these mountain villages. But many residential streets—most of which are privately owned—were still impassable.

“It’s ‘Mountain Living,’” laughed Debbie Richardson from her perch of 40 years at an elevation of 5,000 feet off East End Trail, above the Frazier Park Post Office. She found 10-foot-long broken…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Top: Snow visitors on Saturday and Sunday were drawn to the Lebec hills to sled and play. Above: Michael Edwards of Frazier Park and friends spent hours shoveling snow to clear his driveway. Then he went out, and felt compelled to write a poem about snow visitors.

A steady line of cars flowed into Lebec Saturday, Dec. 27, bringing excited snow play visitors

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