Worst snow storm you've experienced?

[10 Turtle Day]

47. The winter of 1983 in South Lake Tahoe, CA

I don’t remember the date but the snow was more than halfway up the sliding glass door. Not as bad as the photos in the OP but snow was up to the street sign poles once we finally got out. Some of that was probably from drifting and some from previous storms. I remember when I first moved to the Sierra Nevadas I naively asked what the 12-foot tall orange poles lining the highways were for and didn’t believe they were snow poles so snowplow drivers could know where the road edges were. I was off work that day from one of the casinos at Stateline, NV and snowed in at home along with my then boyfriend. People who were at work were snowed in there for days but at least they had emergency generators in the casinos because of course we lost power. We were always losing power. We shoveled our butts off but just couldn’t throw the snow any higher. At least we had shoveled enough that the dogs could go out to do their business. Friends of mine who still live there say that 2022 was even worse than the winter of ‘83 and that is truly inconceivable. By spring there were bumper stickers and t-shirts available proclaiming “I survived the winter of 1982-1983!” I have photos somewhere around here but no clue where to start looking.

I remember another big storm that same winter and the same boyfriend was snowed in at his house along with his twin brother. Their house was on a side street maybe 8 houses from Pioneer Trail, a main artery road that went to Stateline had been plowed. The brothers started shoveling their road and said that their neighbors came out to laugh and call them crazy fools but once they got closer to their homes they stopped laughing and joined in the shoveling. They eventually did clear a lane to Pioneer Trail and were able to get to work.