5/16/2023 0 Comments Scott schwartz encino![]() Some 90 inches (228 centimeters) of snow fell in four days leading up to the disaster. The now-third-ranked 1982-83 winter came on the heels of the season when Tahoe’s deadliest avalanche struck at Alpine Valley south of Truckee. The monument at Donner Memorial State Park indicates the snow depth reached 22.5 feet (6.9 meters) before some of the stranded resorted to cannibalism. Ten major storms dumped rain and snow on the mountains the first two weeks of November 1846. Interstate 80 closed several times between Reno and Sacramento. Roofs collapsed under the weight of snow and schools shuttered for days. The final day of the Nevada high school state skiing championships was canceled. Since December, a parade of atmospheric storms have dumped so much snow on the Sierra that Tahoe ski resorts have been forced to shut down multiple times. ![]() That was the second of back-to-back blizzard buster seasons remembered most for an avalanche that killed seven at a Tahoe ski resort on March 31, 1982. Over the weekend, the “winter that just doesn’t want to end” as the National Weather Service in Reno put it, topped the previous No. (AP) - No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party when the pioneers were trapped atop the Sierra Nevada for months and dozens died near Lake Tahoe in the winter of 1846-47.īut this season has now etched its way into the history books as the second snowiest in the 77 years of record-keeping at the Central Sierra Snow Lab - more than 56.4 feet (677 inches, 17.2 meters) with no end in sight.Īnd there’s still a chance it could surpass the record of 67.7 feet (812 inches, 20.6 meters) set in 1951-52 when more than 200 passengers on a San Francisco-bound luxury train from Chicago were stranded for three days near Donner Pass west of Truckee, California.
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