According to The Weather Channel, with an average snowfall of 206.6 inches per year, Truckee, CA ranks as the third snowiest place in America. Valdez, AK and Sherman, NY came in first and second respectively.
The most snow recorded in Truckee in one day was 45 inches on January 3, 1916, and the deepest snowpack was 118 inches in 1911.
Those facts bring up the subject of the Donner Party, the ill-fated pioneers who got stuck by a series of winter storms near Truckee and Donner Lake. When they were finally rescued in early 1847, there were widespread accounts of cannibalizing the dead in order to survive.
Then in 2010, a university study was released indicating there was no evidence of cannibalism in the bones they examined. Turns out, they only examined 85 of the 16,000 bone fragments they recovered. As gruesome as it may be, there is more evidence of cannibalism than there is of its absence