New Year’s Eve Tourism In Tahoe A Concern For Locals

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS13) – Living on Highway 50 has not been casual this twelvemonth owed to the devastating Caldor Fire and present a large snowstorm causing powerfulness outages, substance shortages and accent astir the vacation season.

With New Year’s Eve here, neighbors successful El Dorado County are acrophobic tourism volition forestall betterment efforts.

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“We unrecorded a hard beingness up here,” said Tiffany Halsey.

Her household was conscionable starting to retrieve from the Caldor Fire, and wintertime storms caused different obstacle.

“It’s hard being displaced,” Halsey said.

Last week’s snowstorm acceptable the household back.

“I’m inactive retired of power,” she said.

Once again, the assemblage of Pollock Pines is struggling with the snowpack preventing substance and nutrient deliveries to the area.

“Most of the frozen shelves are empty,” said Tiffany Halsey’s daughter, London.

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With New Year’s Eve hours away, they fearfulness what’s near for them volition each beryllium taken by tourists heading to Tahoe to party.

“Everybody is benignant of utilizing this arsenic similar a pitstop,” London said.

“They’re taking our gas, they’re taking what we request to survive. When radical privation to travel up and play and messiness around, they’re messing with our lives. Let america recover,” Halsey said.

The last New Year’s Eve destination is 50 miles distant successful Tahoe, wherever officials are asking visitors to reconsider ringing successful the caller twelvemonth there.

“Everyone wants to travel to Tahoe, hoot and holler,” said CEO of South Lake Tahoe’s Chamber of Commerce Duane Wallace.

Wallace was acrophobic casinos are inactive readying parties erstwhile section resources are stretched thin.

“People expect the tow trucks to come, the constabulary to travel and they can’t. They’re overwhelmed. If you don’t person to question successful the Sierra, possibly not this time,” Wallace said.

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Caltrans said they person nary plans of shutting down I-80 oregon Highway 50 unless the upwind gets worse.

Laura Haefeli