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A Caltrans tow truck is surrounded by snow along a closed Interstate 80 near Donner Pass on Saturday, March 2, 2024, after authorities shut down the major freeway due to whiteout conditions.
It was the blizzard that kept on coming — and it continued to aim squarely at the Interstate 80 corridor and Lake Tahoe. ... a big rig without chains stuck in whiteout conditions on a local road.
They were among several travelers Saturday on Highway 50 — most of whom were tourists rather than locals — who braved blizzard-like conditions and chain controls en route to Lake Tahoe.
A winter storm warning was set to expire at 10 p.m. Saturday, but an avalanche warning remained in effect into the following night for elevations above 8,000 feet (about 2,400 meters) around Tahoe. Interstate 80 was closed along an 80-mile (130-kilometer) stretch from Applegate, California, to the Nevada line just west of Reno, where rain was ...
The California snowstorm cut off Mammoth Mountain from SoCal again Sunday and paralyzed Interstate 80. A blizzard warning was extended for Mammoth until Sunday night and the Tahoe area through ...
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey.The segment of I-80 in California runs east from San Francisco across the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge to Oakland, where it turns north and crosses the Carquinez Bridge before turning back northeast through the Sacramento Valley.
The road passes are generally listed from north to south, with their elevation and access road. The California Department of Transportation attempts to keep Donner Summit (Interstate 80, I-80), Echo Summit (U.S. Route 50, US 50) and Carson Pass (State Route 88, SR 88) open year-round. Most other passes at higher elevation than these are usually ...
One point of interest along California State Route 89 includes the Pony Express remount station in Woodfords, the Lake Tahoe Outlet Gates in Tahoe City (control of these gates was the source of the two-decade "Tahoe Water War" between lakeshore owners and downstream Truckee River water users), Plumas-Eureka State Park (containing Johnsville, a ...