Seasonal snow accumulation records were installed on some ski resorts including Squaw Valley, California U.S. off the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Heavenly Mountain Resort on the south side of the lake, and Mammoth Mountain, a sprawling Eastern Sierra resort, which attracts the Southern California skiers and snowboarders.
Over 61 feet of snow fell in the 400-kilometer mountain of the Sierra Nevada this season, second only to the 1950-51 season, when a total of 65 feet, fell, according to records kept at the California Department of Transportation. Although spring has arrived, Sierra usually gets snow in April, bringing the prospect of all-time record.
In Squaw Valley, home to the 1960 Winter Olympics, ski patrol guides to create a tunnel to reach them warming huts and avalanches broke windows at two stations of the elevator, "said Wes Schimmelpfenning, 68, who was a patrolman for 48 years. Nearly 59 feet of snow has fallen there is still this winter, beating the previous record by 29 centimeters.
Squaw extends their time in a day of memory, while the mammoth, with a peak height exceeding 11,000 feet, can remain open through Independence Day.
Record snow accumulation causes trouble, as the roof damage to some homeowners and businesses, but this is good news for the water of the state. Governor Jerry Brown was expected to formally declare an end a protracted drought, the state, said Evan Westrup, the representative office of the governor.
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