Winter precipitation is falling short and meager dusting of snow in Mountain Communities makes drought’s return likely

Over at Frazier Park’s Ace Hardware on Friday we heard rumors that 16 inches of snow might be headed our way. In the Pine Mountain community many changed their weekend plans so they wouldn’t get caught by road closures on the Grapevine or at the Mil Potrero “Y.” Instead of going out, families brought in the firewood.

El Tejon Unified School District canceled…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Chuck Noble’s truck in Lebec collected about one-eighth of an inch of snow in last weekend’s ‘blizzard.’

Jeff Zimmerman shows the storm hitting the Tehachapi mountains but missing the entire Neenach basin—and leaving very little snow in the Frazier Mountain and Mount Piños areas. What will this weekend bring?

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This is part of the March 9, 2018 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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