“It just started snowing and snowing, and we’re like, ‘We’re not going to go home on Sunday.’ ”
— Mount Pleasant High School animation teacher Lawrence Caces, 40, about the prodigious snowfall in Lake Tahoe last week. Caces and 10 family members and friends drove up ahead of the blizzard for a vacation. But their plan to leave last Sunday was upended by the relentless snowfall.