Winter storms batter western states
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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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Flash floods, mudslides and landslides were reported across Southern California today as a dangerous winter storm pummeled much of the Golden State.
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Much of the western United States was expected to be bitter cold and damp Monday, with snow forecast for the Northwest, Northern Great Basin and Rockies.
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Scorching temperatures in the western US cause a string of fires, threatening homes and highways.
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Winter storms at both ends of the country dumped snow and snarled air and land travel Friday, killing at least 10 people, blocking major highways and even stranding 400 train passengers in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
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A powerful winter storm slammed  California for the second day on Sunday, causing floods and at  least two deaths around Los Angeles, which was the hardest hit,  officials said.
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Several states in the north-western US declare emergencies because of continuing fierce blizzards.
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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.
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ALBANY, N.Y. - 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. The storms were blamed for at least one death in Ohio. New York Gov.
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A winter storm roared into the midwestern and northeastern United States on Wednesday, dumping a mixture of snow, ice, sleet and rain that caused transportation havoc and forced many schools to close.
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The winter storm that roared through the Northwest and Rockies &#151; causing traffic nightmares and helping break a Seattle rain record &#151; blew across the southern Plains and Midwest, bringing with it the first significant ice and snow of the season.
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A winter storm batters southern California and dumps heavy snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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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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Driving snow leaves half a million people without power as a winter storm hit the central United States.
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The first major snowstorm of the season blew across the Plains and Midwest on Thursday, grounding hundreds of flights, closing schools, glazing highways and threatening to dump up to a foot of snow on communities that had basked in balmy weather only days earlier.
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Storms that roared through the Northwest and Rockies &#151; crippling traffic and helping break a Seattle precipitation record &#151; blew through the southern Plains and Midwest, bringing the first significant ice and snow of the season.
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Gale-force winds dumping heavy snow wreaked havoc across Austria and Slovakia on Saturday, blowing cars into deadly collisions, knocking out power to thousands of homes and tearing off a balcony that struck a man below.