Precip estimates from Fri/13 Dec thru Tue/17 Dec would infer 6 to 8 feet of snow for Donner Summit and at Lake Tahoe ski resorts. Snow levels will be lower than with the Nov storm, mostly in the 4000 to 6000 foot range in the Northern Sierra.
it's from a weather discussion posted on powdermag.com . . . and no you're not gonna be skiing powder over your head. 8 feet of sierra cement packs down nicely. ain't gonna happen folks. you should know that
although, these are the storms where people die either from suffocation, or from tooling around in the backcountry, and getting destroyed by a wet slide...