In Lake Arrowhead and surrounding towns, some residents remain snowed in

Over a week after a rare blizzard blew into Southern California, San Bernardino’s mountain communities are still feeling its harsh effects.

As residents wait for state and county services, help has come from volunteers – and one another.

Homes and businesses in the mountain communities are still buried by 10-foot high snowdrifts, and on Sunday afternoon, heavy fog was rolling in, limiting visibility.

Many main roads into Lake Arrowhead and elsewhere are now passable, but the plows have left imposing walls of snow along the roadsides, further burying some residents’ driveways and homes.

A snowed-in cat watches the goings-on along highway 189 in Blue Jay on Sunday, March 5, 2023. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A man carries bottled water and other necessities supplied by a food distribution center at the Lake Arrowhead Branch Library on Sunday, March 5, 2023. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Volunteers set up a food distribution center at the Lake Arrowhead Branch Library on Sunday, March 5, 2023 for residents ho have been snowed in since last week.
(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A car sits buried in snow on Sunday, March 5, 2023 in the Lake Arrowhead area where some residents were still snowed-in after last week’s storms. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The snow didn’t stop falling in the Lake Arrowhead area where workers were out in force on Sunday, March 5, 2023, plowing roads and shoveling snow. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Angela Hill makes her way through a snowbank and up a steep snow-covered hill towards her home in Blue Jay. She carries food for her four cats on Sunday, March 5, 2023, that she was able to get from a nearby food distribution center. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Lake Arrowhead appears quiet and monochromatic on Sunday, March 5, 2023, after severe snow storms closed roads leading to the winter tourist spot. Workers were out in full force trying to plow roads, shovel snow, and shut off gas lines to prevent fires. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Icicles form on an eave near Lake Arrowhead on Sunday, March 5, 2023 after the area was pummeled by storms.
(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The “Rattlesnake Task Force” stage at Lake Arrowhead Village on Sunday, March 5, 2023, where they were shoveling …read more

Source:: The Mercury News