It has never stopped : Tahoe residents blame Airbnb, county for nonstop tourism in pandemic
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Tahoe City.Ryan Salm/Special to SFGATE
Between Dec. 10 and Jan. 13, Gov. Gavin Newsom placed Lake Tahoe and the greater Sacramento region under a regional stay-at-home order that told people to postpone trips and stay home. The order interrupted one of Tahoe’s busiest seasons of the year, but of course, it didn’t stop people from coming for a ski trip over the winter holidays.
Placer County s code compliance department received 350 calls and emails during the most recent order, said Jayme Paine, a supervising officer in the department. Some of those were from visitors who had questions about traveling to Tahoe or property owners reaching out to learn more about whether they could still rent their house. But many of those complaints came from Tahoe residents frustrated that the Airbnb or Vrbo on their street was still occupied when they were supposed to be empty.
CHEYANNE NEUFFER Tahoe Daily Tribune, via AP
STATELINE, Nev. The past year was such a wild ride that even the thought of a tsunami at Lake Tahoe probably doesn’t sound out of reason.
Several thousand years ago, according to Richard Schweickert, a retired University of Nevada, Reno geology professor, the lake experienced just such an event.
While a specific date is the hard to pinpoint, it is estimated that a tsunami struck after an earthquake in the basin about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Schweickert has spent most of his career working in the Sierra Nevada, and has been collecting evidence about tsunamis in Lake Tahoe.
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Firefighter/Paramedic Stephanie Lockhart was the first to volunteer when North Tahoe Fire received an emergency request for assistance from Loma Linda University Medical Center, where ICU beds are currently at 99% capacity.
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Firefighters are no stranger to being deployed on 14-day assignments during disasters, and this winter, crews will don a different uniform as they report to hospitals instead of wildfires.
Firefighter/Paramedic Stephanie Lockhart was the first to volunteer when North Tahoe Fire received an emergency request for assistance from Loma Linda University Medical Center, where ICU beds are currently at 99% capacity. Lockhart will be on assignment at the hospital working 12-hour shifts, assisting nurses and other hospital staff with patient care for the next two weeks.