‘Everything Is Closed At One Point Or Another’: Heavy Snow Makes A Mess Of Sierra Highways

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DONNER SUMMIT (CBS13) — Sierra snowfall has unopen down Interstate 80 astatine Applegate to the Nevada State Line, prompting mile-long delays.

It took a fractional a twelve men to effort and get 1 operator retired of the snow

“That’s my atrocious luck,” said the driver.

A California Highway Patrol serviceman manned steering instrumentality to assistance get him retired of harm’s way, lone to pass him that I-80 was unopen down.

“I was down him and helium got stuck and I decided to assistance him, and truthful I get stuck too,” said a antheral who was helping propulsion the car connected the Applegate Boulevard offramp.

Near-whiteout conditions made it hard to adjacent instrumentality a detour.

One tractor-trailer got stuck connected the offramp portion trying to crook around. A unit of guys from Vallejo who were trying to caput up the slopes decided to chill.

“If they can’t get through, we’re decidedly not getting through!” 1 said.

After seeing others trying to propulsion astir connected the shoulder, lone to get stuck, a antheral moving for a motortruck driving institution had to enactment it successful park.

“Because determination is an crystal articulator and I dropped disconnected the broadside of it. And present I’m stuck until I tin get a pull-out,” helium said.

A tow motortruck operator was called successful connected his time disconnected to assistance the stranded large rig.

“I americium conscionable letting everybody cognize [that] if they don’t travel prepared, bring your checkbook. It’s expensive: $450 per hour, two-hour minimum … truthful it volition beryllium astatine slightest $1,000 – and nary antithetic for cars,” the tow motortruck operator said.

To marque matters worse, a powerfulness outage had a adjacent state presumption idled.

Tamara Burbridge was connected her mode backmost location to Portola aft visiting her girl for Christmas successful the Bay.

“We looked up astir each way we could perchance find … everything is closed astatine 1 constituent oregon different to get wherever we request to go,” Burbridge said.

Locals were prepared with their pup successful the back.

“We unrecorded close implicit here. There’s trees down each implicit the road; we had to usage a chainsaw to get here,” the section said.

They’ve seen these types of implicit closures before.

“It’s going to beryllium a agelong haul for the adjacent 3 oregon 4 day, but we’ll person fun. We’ll marque it,” helium said.

Travelers were trying to support it each successful perspective.

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“Best lawsuit scenario, if we can’t get through, we conscionable play successful the snowfall for a litle spot and past caput location to Vallejo,” 1 antheral said.