Hey, Mammoth Lakes, add this group shot of the National Guard to your winter scrapbook. Burdened with removing the 44 feet of snow that had fallen this season, the village of 8,200 called in the National Guard earlier this month to help cart 4,000 tons of it away. A request for snow removal assistance was passed along to the state Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), which then called in the Guard. Though not unheard of, it’s highly unusual for the National Guard to race to rescue towns socked in by snow. Snowplows have struggled to keep up with record falls all winter, after January proved the snowiest on record.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 24, 2017 13:02 UTC