Roofs were collapsing in Winter of 1992 in Mt. Shasta. You had to dig your own parking place to have a place to park.

We had moved away from Mt. Shasta in the summer of 1992 to Aromas, California to a Ranch there then but we returned to visit friends in the Winter when snow was collapsing roofs at that time. This likely was when I skied on 40 feet of snow up at Bunny Flat at 6900 feet  then because it is the most snow that I ever saw at one time in Mt. Shasta. People were falling off their roofs and either dying or almost suffocating in the snow drifts then. And people were trying to haul their snow blowers up to their roofs and some roofs couldn't handle the weight of the snow blowers then too. Many roofs collapsed during this winter of 1992 in Mt. Shasta city, Califronia 

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Reports confirm that

a single major snowstorm in late December 1992, at the end of the year, dumped as much as 8 feet of snow in higher elevations of California's Sierra Nevada and created drifts of up to 12 feet. Some people who lived in the Mount Shasta area at the time have also recalled very large snow totals during the 1992–1993 winter, with one person remembering 5 feet of snow overnight. 

Details of the 1992 snowstorms:

• A powerful winter storm began in late December 1992, lashing California with rain and snow and ending a seven-year drought.
• The storms dropped several feet of snow across the Sierra, with reports of up to 8 feet in some areas, which created snowdrifts of 12 feet or more.
• The heavy snowfall led to the closure of major highways in the Sierra Nevada and even caused a fatal avalanche.
• One Mount Shasta resident, recalling the following winter (1992–1993), mentioned a single night where 5 feet of snow fell. 

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Important context:

• It's important to distinguish between snowfall totals for individual events and totals for the entire winter season. While it's plausible that a large cumulative total of 12 feet of snow fell during the 1992–1993 winter season, the 12-foot figure most likely refers to the height of a snowdrift from a single major storm event, rather than the total accumulated depth.
• For comparison, the average annual snowfall at the Mt. Shasta Ski Park is about 188 inches, or 15.7 feet. Some of the winter storms in 1992 brought totals that were a significant portion of that average in a very short period. 

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• TRAVEL RESUMES IN SNOWY SIERRA - The Washington Post

  Dec 30, 1992 — ONE MAN KILLED IN AN AVALANCHE. December 30, 1992More than 32 years ago. By Associated Press. NYACK, CALIF., DEC. 30 -

  

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