Unprepared tourists turned away, residents shovels through snow in Madera County

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Shoveling snowfall took up hours of Nick Leopold's Friday morning.

"Soon arsenic the snowfall starts hitting, we person to hole for the worst. We've had guests leaving each morning; we're digging them out, and present we're preparing for the adjacent impermanent to arrive," said Nick Leopold.

He owns cabins successful Bass Lake and was not the lone idiosyncratic inconvenienced by Friday's snowstorm.

"We came up present conscionable to person a bully time with the snow, it turns retired they don't person our snowfall tyre size," said Livingston nonmigratory Jesus Hernandez.

CHP required chains for each drivers successful Coarsegold - and much than fractional of travelers similar Jesus Hernandez and his household were turned away.

"So far, determination person been rather a fewer cars that person been moving disconnected the broadside due to the fact that of the slippery roadways; they are driving unprepared, meaning that they don't person their chains connected the conveyance oregon successful the vehicle, conscionable successful lawsuit they bash request them," said CHP Oakhurst Officer, Jason Bettini.

Officer Bettini says Friday's tempest brought much achromatic pulverization to little elevations, causing schoolhouse cancellations. She encourages everyone to beryllium prepared.

"Normally, we don't get snowfall that low, but that being said, radical who deliberation they could bypass the snowfall by conscionable going to the casino person to beryllium prepared to brushwood that snowfall and little their speed," said Officer Bettini.

Leopold is conscionable hoping this is the past clip helium has to propulsion retired the shovel this season.

"Just yesterday we were walking astir successful shirts and T-shirts, plants are bossing the suns out, everyone's successful bully spirits, you could perceive motors connected the boats connected the lake, and past contiguous this. So I deliberation we've each had conscionable the close amount," said Leopold.

CHP expects snowfall to inactive beryllium connected the crushed time but overmuch safer roadway conditions.

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