I got snowed in with my wife and daughter in South Lake Tahoe about 10 years ago

 My daughter is now 25 years old but then I think she was either 9th or 10th grade and had just started at probably the best Private school in my county on the ocean. When we arrived it was snowing but we didn't realize that we were going to get snowed in and that it would become an ordeal for these people.

Having lived in Mt. Shasta off and on since 1976 and having visited there skiing each year from about 1969 on and having gone to religious conferences with my parents there in Mt. Shasta since likely 1953 when I was 5 years old I knew how to deal with getting snowed in a lot.

But, most people I was with there were not familiar with getting snowed in because they had all lived on the coast of California most of their lives. Only 3 people even got to the ski lift the first day. Everyone else didn't want to wade through 3 to 4 feet deep unplowed snow to get to Heavenly Valley ski resort. It was a least a mile or more through heavy snow and only the last 1/2 mile was plowed. They didn't try to plow our roads to our 5 bedroom mansion that the school had rented for the snow weekend for 4 days time.

One other father and I were the only ones handy enough to actually take care of the house and outside the house during this time. We went down into the garage and found luckily a snow blower which we started up and immediately plowed the front driveway. then we got snow shovels and shoveled snow off all of the decks so they didn't collapse and before that shoveled snow off the roof so it wouldn't collapse either. We then dropped the snow off the roof to the decks and from the decks to the ground. And the snow kept coming down for at least 3 of the 4 days. So, basically we kept all the parents and kids from panicking from the snow who weren't used to dealing with stuff like this like the other father and myself.

The 2nd or 3rd day we were there there was a knock on the door of Cal Poly University students from San Luis Obispo, California. They had gotten their car stuck in the snow. So, we got out the snow blower and cleaned the road in front of their car up to the house that this group had rented or maybe it belonged to one of their parents or something. So, we were good Samaritans in helping these kids get unstuck and plowed the road with the snow blower up to where they needed to park their car to get into their house.

So, finally 4 days later our roads were plowed likely by the city or county and we all got out of there having had a very interesting experience at the very least. Some of the parents couldn't get to their jobs because of all this too.

So, this was about 2011 because my daughter graduated her private school as a senior about 7 years ago now.