Jeremy Renner accident - wow

I saw that! He was the top story until the Buffalo game Awful!

The article linked in the OP says neighbors said the snowplow ran over his leg, causing severe damage. But it didn't say how he got the chest injury.

Just awful.

It is really awful. Hoping he pulls through.

I read someplace that the plow didn't have a kill switch so if he fell off it kept going.

We used to race motorcycles and the riders have a ball strapped to their wrist by a leather strap. If you fall off it automatically pulls the ball out and the engine stops.

Probably not the same type of kill switch on the plow but some mechanism that stops the engine if the driver falls or gets off. Evidently his plow didn't have one or it malfunctioned.

ETA: He may have fallen off, the plow kept going and ran over him.

What a traumatic accident! I'm so glad it wasn't far worse.

 He does, but he also looks more alert than I feared, so there is that.  I hope he's on the road to recovery.

He is on the border of California and Nevada. It was his equipment.

I was referring to the comment that Reno is “affected by crazy California weather.” It just seemed like a California-centric comment to me.

Yup, it is CA centric, it's 40 mins down the hill from Tahoe.

Holy crap, it’s looking as if luck was on his side that day!

In Malibou's defense, the headline (national network) news is all about the 'atmospheric weather monster that is about to hit the West Coast. She's just adding perspective that Reno is close enough to the California border that it's affected by the exact same storm, that's all. Not everyone knows right off the top of their head where exactly Reno lands within the Nevada borders. Its just helpful information.

and on that note....California forever, goodbye     IYKYK. 

Hmm, okay. Not sure how what I wrote has you assuming that I think in any manner that CA is the center of the world and that weather revolves around us.

CA doesn't typically have weather that is in anyway notable outside of continued drought. The pile of weather systems sitting out in the Pacific are taking aim at CA and hammering parts of CA in a way that has our weather being talked about much like FL gets talked about when a hurricane is ripping thru. Yes, the hurricane often times affects other states, but not before being downgraded to the point that we don't really hear much about its affect on them. The hurricane, will be henceforth referred to, by name, as the hurricane that pummeled FL in whichever year. This weather system will be talked about for years as the CA weather system of 2023. San Francisco has repeatedly broken rainfall records over the past week that have stood for 173 years, and will likely to continue to break that record several more times in the coming days. There will be loads of historical sites and buildings that will never recover from this weather event. North and south of San Francisco, rivers, damns, and levees are bursting causing devastating damage, all of which isn't likely to change our drought status by much. Entire roads and towns being washed away, millions of people being asked to evacuate. With the copious quantity of fires we have experienced in recent years, there are tremendous burn scars, that when mixed with an unprecedented weather event like CA is experiencing leads to deadly landslides. The amount of snow that is dumping on the Sierra Mountains will lead to ski resorts being shut down because of an immense likelihood of avalanches, which aren't that common there. Those same mountains are also causing this weather event to break up and settle down as it passes into our adjacent states to the east. These weather systems are by and large affecting just CA and sneaking a bit into our border states, which includes Reno Nevada that is on the back side of the Sierras, the rest of Nevada isn't really being affected by this weather. This is a CA weather system, an unprecedented CA weather system.

If MN gets hit by a big storm swooping in from Canada, but is largely not affecting other bordering states, but it leaks into Iowa, Wisconsin and North Dakota a bit, it will still be referred to as the weather system that hammered MN with little mention, other than locally, of its affect on neighboring states.

iowgirl.. yes.. that piston bully snowcat is a very unusual machine to be owned by a private individual.. it is usually found in a ski area.. pulling grooming equipment, etc.

and it would take a different set of skills than using a snowplow..like a truck or a blade on a pickup truck.