Avalanche Deposits "15 Feet" of Snow on Lake Tahoe Highway

As a major winter storm hits the Sierra Nevada, the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) crews are hard at work keeping roadways safe and clear. 

On Tuesday morning, February 17, that involved using an avalanche control system to bring down 15 feet of snow across the Mt. Rose Highway summit, a stretch of road that connects Reno, Nevada, to Lake Tahoe area ski resorts, like Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe.

Traffic was stopped, and after the avalanche was released, NDOT said that it had safely cleared the highway.