West Coast Snow Storm Prompts Emergency
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At least five feet of snow fall in the Sierra Nevada contributed to flooding that killed at least three people and left thousands without power.
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Cold snap provides more trouble for travellers disrupted by repair work on West Coast main line
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SHAVER LAKE, Calif. The weather is apparently cooperating in the search for 13 hikers missing after an intense California storm. It dumped snow and rain across the Sierras over the past two days.
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A Pacific storm was expected to wallop the West on Sunday, pummeling Oregon and California with rain and snow. Significant rain was forecast all the way to Southern California, and rain and thunderstorms were possible even in northern Arizona, site of the Super Bowl.
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Another storm dumped more snow and rain across the West Coast on Sunday, with snow totals of 11 feet measured in parts of the Sierra Nevada.
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(CBS/AP) A storm that dumped freezing rain and as much as 18 inches of snow on the East Coast left tens of thousands of customers without power.
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It is 4:45 p.m. West Coast time: It is like a nuclear bomb went off here in San Diego. We have been evacuated from our home early this a.m.
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A California mountain highway near the Mexican border is closed because of a surprise snowstorm that stranded as many as 500 motorists.
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The California coastline was expected to receive its first rain in over a week on Tuesday. The storm should also bring some snow to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges.
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Storms battered the western United  States on Saturday with strong winds, heavy rains and a blanket  of snow that caused widespread power outages, a levee break in  Nevada and two deaths in California.
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A slow-rolling series of storms that battered the West this week brought snowfall and high wind Thursday to parts of California, where weather-weary residents have already endured lashing rain, heavy snowfall and a destructive tornado. Since the wild weather began slogging ashore Monday, five deaths in California and two in Colorado have been blamed on storms. Searchers on Thursday recovered what they believed were the bodies of two missing college students who had vanished after their canoe capsized in a flooded Arizona creek.
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Authorities were trying to help hundreds of motorists stranded in the snow in the mountains north of Los Angeles.
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The U.S. government said it was closing federal offices in the Washington area at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) on Tuesday because of a storm that was expected to blanket the area in snow and sleet, the Office of Personnel Management said.
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With more than 8 feet of snow already coating the ground, it wasn't good news for this winter-weary region when the blue sky turned gray Saturday, signaling another intense snow squall was about to dump some more.
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Snow-laden western New York braced for another wintery onslaught Wednesday as storms closed schools, menaced motorists and knocked out power in communities from the Midwest to the Northeast.
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As many as 200 vehicles got stuck in deep snow early Saturday in the San Bernardino Mountains as the latest in a series of storms struck California. The storms quickly moved eastward, closing all three major highways over the Sierra Nevada.
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A storm off the West Coast will move southeast on Wednesday, bringing heavy precipitation and strong winds. Snow accumulations could exceed a foot in the mountains above 4,000 feet, and winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph were expected.