COVID-19 in Mount Shasta: What a difference a year makes Mount Shasta Herald Mount Shasta’s Jennifer Martin took a photo of an eerily deserted Mount Shasta Boulevard, near its intersection with Castle Street above on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. Exactly one year later on Friday, she took another picture, but the street lost its strange stillness. “What a difference a year makes!” she said, noting the picture taken last year was just days after Gov. Gavin had declared a State of Emergency in California, which closed schools and numerous businesses and ordered people to stay home except for essential activities to avoid spreading or contracting COVID-19.