Click here to read a Friday morning update about power outages and more dangers in the region. UPDATE: 8 p.m. Thursday: Truckee Town Council voted unanimously late Thursday afternoon to declare a state of emergency because of infrastructure damages from the storm system this past week. Click here for more updates Thursday of the storm and recovery efforts. Update 3:35 p.m.: According to Truckee-CHP, a small gas leak was located on Regency Way in Tahoe Vista and was “contained and no gas was detected in the area. The area should return to normal shortly.” There were no injuries reported during this incident — and, of note, there have been no serious injuries reported across the region this week due to the storm.

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Update 3:10 p.m.:  The California Highway Patrol announced in a Facebook post that the Regency Way area of Tahoe Vista is under a mandatory evacuation order due to a gas leak.

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Update 10:45 a.m.: In an update from Liberty Utilities, a spokesperson for the company said that customers in neighborhoods with heavy damage should expect to remain without power for days. Sporadic outages continue to affect the west shore, the email said, and customers between Tahoe City and Fallen Leaf Road/Highway 89 remain without power. Restoration crews are working in multiple areas right now. The statement also says that the situation is very dynamic and can change as large trees continue to fall. Crews will move north from Fallen Leaf Road/Highway 89 today, and the company says it is aiming to have electricity restored to Tahoe Pines by midnight. A separate restoration team will move south from Tahoe City today, with the goal of getting Barker Pass Road/Highway 89 back online by midnight. Customers in the Tahoe Pines Area, from Barker Pass Road to Cherry Street should be advised that Liberty Utilities has reported that this area has very heavy damage with multiple poles down, and that may require helicopter repair.  According to the company, weather is currently preventing helicopter access today, but they may be able to access the area tomorrow. The North Tahoe Public Utility District is continuing to make its office available for use as an emergency warming shelter and cell phone charging facility. The office is located at 875 National Ave. in Tahoe Vista. Original story: TRUCKEE, Calif. — The ongoing winter storm has hit the Truckee area so bad that the town of Truckee is expected to declare a state of local emergency Thursday.

Town Council has scheduled a special meeting for 5:45 p.m. Thursday at Truckee Town Hall (10183 Truckee Airport Road) to approve the recommendation from Town Manager Tony Lashbrook.

“The Town Engineering staff has begun to document numerous areas that have experienced damage, including town roads, drainage infrastructure and other facilities. There is a good chance that we won’t know the full extent of the damage until the late spring or early summer,” according to a memo from Lashbrook.

If council approves the declaration Thursday, it will allow the town to seek California and federal emergency funds “for assistance in repairs caused by this natural disaster.”

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As of Wednesday night, there were no estimates in terms of cost or extent of damage in town.

Meanwhile, as of 7 a.m. Thursday, there have been no updates posted to the websites of Liberty Utilities or the Truckee Donner PUD about power outage updates on the North and West shores of Lake Tahoe, and in Truckee.

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Visit http://www.tdpud.org/ and https://california.libertyutilities.com/truckee/residential/ for updates. We will post updates when we hear them.

As of Wednesday, power had been reportedly restored to roughly 16,000 customers, with another 6,300 customers or so still in the dark.

Meanwhile, according to NV Energy, of the roughly 2,300 Incline Village residents without power Wednesday evening, most have been restored as of this morning. Visit https://www.nvenergy.com/outage/view/outagelist_state.cfm to stay up to date there.

As reported Wednesday, all Tahoe Truckee Unified School District and Incline Village schools are closed today, and Incline schools also are closed Friday.

Of note, some schools on Tahoe’s South Shore will be open Thursday.

According to the National Weather Service in Reno, the winter storm warning was extended to 10 p.m. Thursday (today) for the greater Truckee-Tahoe region.

Four to 8 inches of additional snow at lake level, and up to a foot above 7,000 feet, is expected by overnight Thursday.

This “crippling snow storm,” according to NWS, that started Monday will still create hazardous road conditions Thursday cross the region. Emergency officials still urge residents to stay inside if possible.

Sierra Sun reporter Amanda Rhoades contributed to this report.