The Reno National Weather Service has extended it’s blizzard warning until 4 a.m. on Monday as mountain communities attempt to dig out from the biggest snowstorm of the year.
Nick Muzik shovels snow outside of the Bar of America in downtown Truckee, Calif., on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Bay Area residents hoping to dig out of a Lake Tahoe blizzard and return home to jobs and school instead faced heavy, wind-whipped snow that kept shut I-80 through the mountains on Sunday. Caltrans said a break in the weather might provide a fresh opportunity to clear and open the highway on Monday.
Conditions around Lake Tahoe on Sunday were at times more severe than on Saturday, with brief periods of sunshine giving way to thick snowfall, and winds sweeping built-up snow into roiling clouds and white-out conditions that made driving a life-threatening proposition. City of South Lake Tahoe officials warned Sunday afternoon that anyone trying to drive westward from the lake on US 50 should expect “significant” delays from backed-up traffic.
Up at 6,700 feet of elevation near the Tahoe Donner ski resort on Sunday, Dimitris Sweeney and his brother-in-law Cole Heer, both of San Jose, were toiling with shovels to free their SUV from 5 feet of snow so they could get some runs in at Northstar ski resort, which had but three runs open by noon and six by later in the day. For Sweeney and Heer, the lingering Lake Tahoe blizzard made timing for their returns home uncertain.
Dimitris Sweeney and his brother-in-law Cole Heer Trent Kirschner cross-country skis along Skislope Way in Truckee, Calif., on Sunday, March 3, 2024. They were trying to head to Northstar California Resort to ski and snowboard. Nick Muzik shovels snow outside of the Bar of America as snow continues to fall in downtown Truckee, Calif., on Sunday, March 3, 2024.
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