Thousands without power, Tahoe-area schools closed after big weekend snowstorm
Several thousand homes and businesses were without power Monday in the South Lake Tahoe area, with widespread outages and other remnants of the weekend’s strong winter storm prompting school closures in the region.
Lake Tahoe Unified School District said all of its schools would be closed due to heavy snow, lack of power, downed trees and roadway hazards. Tahoe-Truckee Unified also canceled all classes.
Liberty Utilities reported outages Monday morning affecting 6,050 customers, with a large majority of that total in South Lake Tahoe or immediately surrounding areas. At one point Sunday, as many as 13,000 were without power across the basin, including in Kings Beach and Tahoma.
The utility company’s website showed an estimated restoration time of noon for most of the remaining outages. But by Monday afternoon, about 5,500 ratepayers remained in the dark.
The National Weather Service reported huge snow totals by Sunday morning. The latest storm brought 2 feet of snow to both downtown Truckee and South Lake Tahoe by 10 a.m. Sunday, with 3 feet of snow falling in east Truckee and close to 4 feet on the peaks of several major ski resorts, including Sugar Bowl (45 inches) and Palisades Tahoe (44 inches).
This story was originally published December 12, 2022 at 8:40 AM.
