“It’s our first Christmas without our kid,” said James Scruggs, 52, of Indio, whose teenage son was in Ohio visiting relatives.
Others came to the beach to mark a new chapter in their lives. On the other hand, “it’s cold as hell back there.” “My baby mama didn’t let me watch my son open his presents,” he said as he waited outside the Pacific Park amusement district. “I’m wearing my jeans right now,” laughed Serafin Magaña,17, of Santa Rosa, his hair still wet from swimming in his clothes as his cousins buried him in the sand.įor Zarin Bell, 25, the bustling crowds were a distraction from the toddler he’d left back home in Enid, Okla.,when he moved to L.A. “In Albuquerque it’s like 40 degrees right now.” “We didn’t have any plans for Christmas so we came on a last-minute road trip,” said Wendy Lopez, 22, of New Mexico as she pushed her long sleeves up over her elbows and waded into the surf. “This is really a very serious weather alert here, and it goes from Oklahoma all the way to Wyoming, and Wyoming to Maine, and it’s of real consequence,” President Biden said in an address Thursday morning.Īmid the dismal forecast, some saw L.A. As of Sunday, at least a dozen people have died in Buffalo, N.Y. this weekend has already stranded thousands of travelers and left tens of thousands more without power. The “bomb cyclone” menacing much of the continental U.S. Parts of Michigan were buried under more than 3 feet of snow. Chains were required for the route.Indeed, the weather is superlatively bad almost everywhere outside of California. The entire highway was closed briefly before it was reopened at nightfall. "Travel will be be hazardous, even impassable at times, in the hardest hit locations with towering snow drifts and whiteout conditions," the weather service said in a statement.Įastbound Interstate 80 through Donner Summit was shut down for hours Friday as snowy conditions helped led to spinouts, the California Department of Transportation said. Jane Tyska / MediaNews Group via Getty Images More rain is expected through the holiday weekend according to the National Weather Service. Workers clear a mudslide from a double lot in Oakland, Calif.
It warned against traveling through the mountains, with the snowfall expected to create hazardous driving conditions. The evacuation warning came as the Sierras expected to see as much as 5 to 8 feet of snow over the holidays, with the possibility of snow piling up to 10 feet high at higher elevations, according to the National Weather Service. Nicco Sandelin of the Tuolumne County sheriff’s office said there did not appear to be any immediate danger, however. In the Sierra Nevada mountains area, around 150 households were given an evacuation warning after cracks were found in granite at the Twain Harte Lake Dam. Federal forecasters said snow could appear at 2,500 feet, possibly impacting some of the Los Angeles basin’s foothills and raising the prospect of a rare white Christmas in the land of sandals and shorts. No injuries were reported in the incident, and evacuation orders were lifted Friday afternoon.įlooding on Friday was reported from Palm Springs to downtown San Diego.Ī second wave of rain and snow was expected in Southern California on Saturday and Sunday. The orders came as the Orange County Fire Authority reported a mudslide Thursday evening. Evacuation orders were issued Thursday in Orange County, California, due to possible mudslides and debris flows in three canyons where a wildfire had blazed last December, according to county officials.
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