Ski Resorts Open For Season As Stay At Home Order Begins For Lake Tahoe Region

CBS San Francisco

December 11, 2020 at 6:50 am

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS SF) — The holiday exodus from the San Francisco Bay Area to the wintry wonders of Lake Tahoe was placed in the deep freeze early Friday as a stay at home order was issued for El Dorado County.

The county has been grouped with the Sacramento area in one of California’s five COVID regions. Once a region falls below 15 percent in the level of ICU beds available, emergency shutdown measures must go into effect. Those measures began rolling out in South Lake Tahoe, Truckee and Tahoe City at 11:50 p.m. Thursday.

Restaurants are limited to just take-out, hotels and other lodging restricted to just essential travelers and other businesses are also severely impacted. So far, ski resorts have been exempted from the order by Gov. Gavin Newsom, but they must operate with social distancing safety measures in place.

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