Out of the weather with a massive blizzard slamming parts of California and Nevada over the weekend with up to 7 feet of snow in some areas cbs’s Carter Evans reports the snow and the powerful winds have closed roads knocked out power to thousands and it’s not over
Yet this is what non-stop snow looks like over 3 days does historic storm wallet the lake Taho region with about 2 months worth of snow and the Reno area got hit with half a Year’s worth wind gusts up to 190 mph were recorded on some mountain peaks and some woke up to
A wall of snow several feet tall even maneuvering a snowplow was a challenge in the blinding blizzard see the goal is not to try and look at anything you just use your peripheral unrelenting snowfall shut down a stretch of the heavily traveled Interstate 80 over the weekend at one point there were
Nearly two to 300 cars and nearly 100 big rigs trapped on on the Mountain Highway California Highway Patrol officers went car toar helping drivers including a stranded mom uh the battery died so she’s got a baby in the car with her and uh my officers did a did an
Amazing job figuring out how to get her out of the area get down to a warming shelter she must have been terrified she was scared yeah she was but she was being a mom Crews across the Sierra Nevada are working around the clock to clear the roads and the rails take a
Look at the train tracks over here covered with snow and now the solution this giant snowplow train even the US mail was briefly brought to a standstill but the delivery trucks were eventually dug out local ski resorts are trying to get back to normal now after the storm
Shut down most operations now all this new snow could extend the ski season until Memorial Day gives us a shot in the arm for the rest of the season there’s no doubt and there is so much know here they have to make piles like this just
To be able to clear the roads and it’s like this all over town there is another storm moving in this evening and it could bring another foot of snow to some areas Nora Carter Evans thank you for all your reporting this weekend
