California issues warning to avoid skiing over Presidents Day weekend because theres TOO MUCH snow
Keen snow sports fans in and across the West Coast have been ordered to stay home this holiday weekend because ski resorts were taking in too much snow.
Winter weather enveloping Californias mountains for a fourth straight day Friday kept skiers from hitting the slopes at the start of the Presidents Day holiday weekend, with snow so deep that plows could not tackle it and cities scrambled to find places to pile it.
Mammoth Mountain was about to break a more than 30 year record for monthly snowfall and skiers and snowboarders should be able to reach the slopes as long as they have chains or snow tires, resort spokesman Justin Romano said.
Snow covered chairs and ski equipment at Heavenly Mountain Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California Friday. Skiers were eager to hit the slopes had to sit out a Presidents Day holiday weekend as heavy snow and rain fell for a fourth straight day
Two men snowboard down a steep street in South Lake Tahoe Friday. The snow was so deep in some areas plows couldnt go out and cities were running out of places to pile it
Drivers make their way up and down a snow packed street in South Lake Tahoe on Friday
The snow was so deep in some areas plows couldnt go out and cities were running out of places to pile it
But non locals were advised not to tackle the conditions after the resort had already gotten 163 inches 414 centimeters of snow this month, just 5 inches shy of its snowfall record for February, set in 1986.
An Oakland couple had a near accident on an icy road last weekend that made them reconsider heading into snow this holiday.
When a main highway through the Lake Tahoe area was crushed with traffic, Aura Campa and her partner drove her SUV on a side road. Her vehicle didnt have chains, and when it was going uphill, the vehicle went into reverse.
A worker operates a snow blower at Heavenly Mountain Resort near South Lake Tahoe
Fresh snow coats a sign at the top of Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe
A big rig lacking chains slid into a snowbank blocking State Route 88 in Amador County near Tragedy Springs
That was really scary for us. It was on a tiny hill with a small amount of ice but that was enough for us to think twice about traveling through a snowstorm again, Campa said.
Several routes to the ski mecca of Lake Tahoe shut down, including about 70 miles 110 kilometers of Interstate 80 from Colfax, California, to the Nevada state line.
I 80 was reopened to passenger vehicles Friday evening.
A man walks down a sidewalk in South Lake Tahoe left Jeff Elkins with the Webster Groves Parks Dept. tries to stay ahead of the snow by blowing off the sidewalks in the business district of town on Lockwood Avenue right
Hao Liu, of San Francisco, rolls a large ball of snow for a snowman his family was making in Wingfield Park in Reno, Nevada, Friday
Jinchun Xia, left, and Kevin Liu, 5, of San Francisco, roll a ball of snow for a snowman they made at Wingfield Park in downtown Reno
The storm was expected to dump between 3 and 6 feet 1 to 2 meters of fresh snow in a region where some ski resorts reported getting 3 feet 1 meter since Thursday. Officials warned of avalanches in the greater Lake Tahoe Area, where heavy snow and high winds were expected through Sunday.
Campa added about using their season passes and hitting the fresh powder at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows resort: Were not going to risk it.
Chains were required for travel in many other parts of the towering Sierra Nevada.
All avid skiers are itching to get out on the mountain, but the roads are pretty treacherous right now, said Kevin Cooper, marketing director for Lake Tahoe TV.
Authorities told people to stay home as snow kept piling up.
State Route 267 is so deep that plows can no longer plow. They have ordered up a large blower to try and clear the pass, Placer County sheriffs Lt. Andrew Scott said in a tweet with a video of the snow covered road.
Fridays storm damaged the San Jacinto Mountains Highway 243 near Idyllwild, California
Rainwater continued to drain Friday from Californias saturated landscapes, and road crews in parts of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming were working to clear avalanches
The storms heavily damaged and in some places destroyed parts of roads leading to Idyllwild and other mountain communities about 100 miles 161 kilometers east of Los Angeles, but access was not cut off.
Crews were starting repairs on State Routes 74 and 243. A route combining surviving portions of the two mountain highways and a county road kept the communities connected to the world, but authorities urged outsiders to leave the tenuous route to residents.
Were discouraging tourism and snow play up there this weekend, California Department of Transportation spokeswoman Terri Kasinga said.
Highways also were damaged in the nearby San Bernardino Mountains, where ski resorts around Big Bear Lake have an abundance of snow. Kasinga said those routes would be open to the public.
In other parts of California, crews turned to cleanup after a storm Thursday led to at least three deaths.
Jay Michael Tucker kayaks through the flooded Surrey Resort as the Russian River flows through it in Guerneville, California
Streets and low lying areas flooded as the Russian River swelled above its banks Friday
A woman pulled from rising water in a flood control channel in Corona, southeast of Los Angeles, had a heart attack and died. About 50 miles 80 kilometers east, a man was found dead after floodwaters swept him away in a rural community. A mans body also was recovered from a fast flowing creek in Escondido, northeast of San Diego.
Storms also have swamped much of the state with heavy rain that crumbled roads and flooded a resort north of San Francisco where a kayaker paddled through a meeting room after a nearby river swelled over its banks. The onslaught extended into Arizona and other parts of the U.S. West, with a winter blast also hitting Missouri.
Winter weather extended into Arizona and the Rocky Mountains.
Firefighters rescued a motorist who called 911 to report that runoff swept his car down a wash in Tucson, Arizona. In northern Arizona, a handful of popular recreation areas around the red rock resort town of Sedona closed because of heavy flooding. More storms were expected to drop snow in northern Arizona this weekend.
In parts of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, road crews worked to clear avalanches that had closed mountain highways and to ease the threat of more slides.
Owner Alex Yarosheno holds onto a tree as the Russian River flows through Surrey Resort in Guerneville Friday
A woman walks along a flooded road in Guerneville. In California, rainwater drained from saturated landscapes even as a new system moved into northern areas of the state and more heavy snow fell in the Sierra Nevada
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