Incredible clip shows huge walls of SNOW that now surround Lake Tahoe home
An incredible video shows huge walls of snow surrounding a Lake Tahoe home where dozens of residents have been snowed in — as the Golden State braces for two more storms imminent.
Miles Clark, an avid skier, was “shocked” when he arrived at his friend’s home in Olympic Valley last Thursday to babysit.
The house has huge snowdrifts along the front almost twice the height of Clark at 8 to 10 feet. The only part of the property visible is the door and front wall, with densely packed snow hanging over the building and an uncertain path carved around the building.
These large snow walls are potentially life-threatening, as roofs can collapse and large chunks of snow can unexpectedly fall on the walkway.
“I was honestly too scared to even remove it because I didn’t want to spend time even standing on that walkway,” he told the San Francisco port. He said he started running down the walkway every time he had to leave the house because he feared another personal avalanche would happen and threaten his life.
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Miles Clark, an avid skier, was “shocked” when he arrived at his friend’s home in Olympic Valley (pictured) in Lake Tahoe last Thursday to babysit
The house has huge snowdrifts along the front door, almost twice the height of Clark, at 8 to 10 feet high, looming up to the front door, where densely packed snow hangs overhead. The only part of the house that was visible is the door and front wall, as the sides of the house and roof are covered in snow.
“I knew we had a lot of snow in Tahoe, but their situation is relatively unique,” Miles told the SF Gate. “It really piled up there, and they just ended up with snow on all sides.
“This is what we live for,” continued the CEO founder of a sports media company called SnowBrains. “But then I started to feel some of the doom and gloom as some of the snow on the walkway collapsed. It would probably be fatal [if I had been standing there].’
The next day, the snow was cleared by the homeowners’ association.
Clark is no stranger to the insane amount of snow in the Tahoe area, having lived in the area for decades. The University of California, Berkeley alumni witnessed the massive snowfall of 2006, 2011, 2017 and 2019, but said he had never seen anything like it.
“I’ve seen huge years of snow, but there’s something odd about this one, maybe because all the snow fell in a short amount of time. All the snow is piled on roofs. This is the most snow I’ve seen, especially on rooftops. It’s unbelievable,” he told the outlet.
A popular ski resort sees a completely different landscape as the snow reaches so high that skiers can climb to the top of the lift, rendering it useless
Many houses are snowed in because feet of snow block them
So much snow has piled on houses that some roofs are collapsing
In some parts of California, the snow is so high that it reached up to the stop signs
He said the terrain is killed by the sheer amount of snow. Even a popular ski resort sees a completely different landscape as the white stuff reaches so high that skiers can reach the top of the lift, rendering it useless.
Ski patrols are working to clear the snow, but it’s a long process.
Despite being a “winter sports enthusiast,” Clark headed to Utah on Tuesday because the “rain scared me off.”
The Golden State has been pummeled by a series of storms in recent weeks and is bracing for two more, which could bring snowfalls of up to four feet in the Sierra Nevada and inches of rain.
The first storm is expected to hit on Sunday, hitting California, Oregon and Washington.
Five to eight inches of rain is predicted to fall in the valleys, while it could bring a few feet of snow to the higher elevations.
Two more storms are expected to hit California again. The first is expected on Sunday and will bring inches of rain and several feet of snow, while the second is expected on Tuesday and will bring more snow
The Sierra Nevada can also see snow up to four feet (Photo: Truckee, CA)
A Union Pacific train was covered in snow and ice earlier this month
Power outages are expected due to the storms this week (Photo: Truckee, CA)
The second storm, expected to hit Tuesday and Wednesday, will be more intense.
Los Angeles could see up to four inches of rain, according to Fox Weather, while San Diego could see one to two inches of rain.
“There we have the flood threat all the way through LA, Bakersfield, Mariposa. It’s not an extreme threat, but even a little bit is concerning because many of these communities and many of the homes are still reeling from some of the devastation for this season,” said Fox Weather meteorologist Brigit Mahoney.
The storms can bring the total snowfall in the Sierra Nevada up to four feet.
Power outage is expected.
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