(CBS13) – It’s an incredible sea of white in Tahoe City. The Heller family went to bed in their cabin, but they woke up in a snow cave. Their house was completely covered in fresh powder. It would take them hours to shovel their way to the surface.
“We still have more to do,” said Mary Heller. “You know you get a little bit excited when you see something different, but I was nervous too. I felt a little claustrophobic and it made me worried about the heating vents possibly being clogged and I knew that I just wanted to start shoveling.”
Still up to her neck in snow, Mary and her family have already spent more than a day digging out of the snow. They come up to their cabin in Tahoe City every year, but this year they got quite a surprise. “We woke up in the morning, it was a complete cave. Every single window was just completely covered with snow,” said Mary.
“To be honest, I was a bit worried that we wouldn’t be able to open the door because the snow would just fall in. But it was a little bit lower than the door, so it was kind of cool. It felt like we were just closed in like in a little snow cave,” said her daughter, Kit. READ MORE
