Late February snow storm

We took off for our Tahoe Donner place on Thursday at about 2:30 pm, just ahead of a snow storm forecast.  It caught up with us just as we started to head up the pass.  That meant some white-knuckle driving at 25 mph, but we made it in and up the driveway and into our garage at about 7:30 – five hours for what usually take a little over three hours.  It snowed very hard all that night and all day Friday, so we did not get out of the house to go skiing.  It would not have made any difference because almost all the ski resorts did not open because of gale-force winds.  We ski at Squaw Valley USA, and the winds over the ridge tops there were clocked at well over 100 mph!!

We got out today, and got some nice skiing in but because it was a Saturday after a big storm, every powder hound within  300 miles was there.  Too crowded for my tastes.  Anyway, when I got back this afternoon I took some pictures to show you how much snow fell on us:

This is a shot from above our place, which shows that the snow is up to our first story.  The pickup belongs to a neighbor and it broke down a couple of weeks ago.  He still hasn’t been able to get it started.  Obviously the plow had to work around it.

This shot shows the front of our place and when you are looking out that lower window you cannot see above the snow!

Another shot of the ill-fated pickup.