“Suddenly there was a blizzard. We were stuck and no one knew what to do.”

Heavy snowfall and wind resulted in very poor visibility on the roads. There were many accidents and the highway was closed in some places.

– We drove, had a great time, listened to music. And then suddenly a blizzard came. We were stuck and no one knew what to do, said a woman from a group of people who were on their way to a music festival in Tahoe. “We tried to turn around and our car was sliding back and forth,” she said.

The friends drove to the nearest gas station in Soda Springs and waited out the snowstorm there.

– I felt like in space. “I felt like I was playing in some interstellar movie,” said the man, who also stopped in the parking lot there when he encountered extreme weather conditions on his way to Reno, Nevada.

Saturday was full of dangerous weather events in California. A tornado touched down in the city of Scotts Valley, south of San Josewhich overturned cars, took down power lines and broke trees. Local media reported that five people were injured.