Deep snow has trapped many people in their homes in Park County, Wyoming. Some families haven’t been able to get down the mountain for more than a week.

Park County Roads remain blocked with a wall of snow, days after the big blizzard and high winds hit northwest Wyoming. Margie Johnson lives in a neighborhood about two miles above the Yellowstone Highway in Wapiti.

In a phone interview she said, “Snowbound. We haven’t left since last Wednesday.”

Johnson is one of several neighbors trapped in their homes in Wapiti, and another storm rolled in.

Johnson said, “Right now it’s kind of a white out with new snow coming down on three feet of old snow…We’re snowed in waiting for our plow person to get fuel and waiting for the county to clear Green Creek, which will allow us to get off the mountain.”

Johnson said she and her neighbors keep in touch, and help each other when they can. She lives on the North Fork, about halfway between Cody and Yellowstone’s East Entrance.

Holly Moen, who lives on the Southfork, about eight miles from Cody told us by phone,“We’re just concerned about the older folks in the neighborhood in case something would have come up healthwise with them because one of them has been in and out of the hospital.”

Moen and her neighbors have been trapped in their homes since Saturday.

The Park County Commissioners said their plows were working to clear the roads as fast as possible.

But County Commission Chair Tim French said, “The winds were blowing 100 miles an hour, blowing the snow, literally and the roads were drifting back in within minutes. And they worked late, late last night. Then I got a call at five this morning and they were getting ready to head out getting the roads cleared for the school buses.”

The school in Wapiti was closed. Even the commissioners had to use snowmobiles and plows to get in to town. French says if anyone has an emergency, they should call 911..

French said, “It’s one thing if you can’t get into work. It’s another thing if a lady goes into labor ready to have a baby or somebody’s having a heart attack, it’s a whole different ball game and our crews will try to rescue those folks.”