Really hit California - from the Los Angeles Times:
‘Travel not advised’: California travelers pounded by a cold Thanksgiving-week storm
Regina Valenzuela left her home in Bell early Tuesday bound for Portland, Ore., where she was going to pick up her aunt for Thanksgiving. Or so she thought.
She had checked the weather reports for Northern California. Snow was in the forecast, but it was just rain farther north in Oregon. No big deal, she figured.
By the time she hit Shasta Lake on Interstate 5 about 2:30 p.m., ice was thickening. Cars were sliding. She bought tire chains and kept driving.
Valenzuela made it 42 more miles, about to the Shasta County town of Castella, when traffic suddenly stopped. Thus began a 17-hour holiday nightmare, in which she was trapped overnight in her Honda Accord on the snowy mountain with scores of other motorists.
Much much more at the site. She was stuck near Redding, CA - I know that area and it can be trecherous.
Was snowed-in in Redding once two years before I started this blog - both of us were sick as dogs. Miserable time.
Juan Browne has this video from his Blancolirio YouTube channel:
Global warming anyone?
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