Strong winds and heavy snow on Tuesday stranded more than 250 skiers and snowboarders overnight at a ski lodge in Cantebury, New Zealand. Operators at Mount Lyford closed the mountain’s parking lot late Tuesday afternoon as snow threatened to . That left some 250 people, including dozens of kids, with no choice but to spend the night in a lodge at the base of the mountain. Resort staff provided what food was available and a few mattresses, but turned off a generator that was heating the building in an effort to ration power. “I don’t think—by the wildest stretch of the imagination—you could say it was a comfortable night,” skier Di Smit said in an interview with the New Zealand Herald. A grooming machine brought food to the lodge Wednesday morning, and the access road reopened at 2 P.M. Wednesday afternoon.
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