Snowed in.

I promised a blog about being snowed in at at Tahoe place a couple of weeks ago. We drove up from our place in the Bay Area on Thursday evening, Feb. 22nd. We skied on Friday and Saturday. It started snowing as we were finishing our day on Saturday. Then the big storm hit. When we woke up on Sunday there was a couple of feet of snow, and it was still snowing hard, with high winds. We could not get out to go skiing, and besides, it was blowing so hard and snowing so hard at Squaw Valley that they did not open any of the lifts. We were supposed to drive home on Sunday night but Donner Pass was closed. On Monday morning we got all packed up and started home but it was snowing very hard and the traffic to get on the freeway was literal gridlock. We turned around and went back to our place. We got up on Tuesday to find a break in the weather, but we had to wait for the plow to come and dig us out. I've attached photos. The first is a shot our our front deck, which I dug out on Tuesday morning. Mind you, there are five steps UP to that level, so that should give you an idea of how deep it was. Next is a shot of the plow coming up the unplowed driveway. The final shot is the plow doing its thing right in front of our garage.