Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group Nathaniel Wilkerson, 10, of Los Gatos, plays in the snow at the Redwood Estates Neighborhood Park on Thursday, Feb. 23. Parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains were under a foot of snow the next morning, leaving residents without power and effectively snowed in due to road closures.
A foot of snow fell in parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains as a rare winter storm spread across the Bay Area on Thursday, Feb. 23.
The weather temporarily closed Highway 17, downed power lines and drew crowds for snowball fights and building snowmen.
“It felt like the house was going