California and other parts of the West are girding for weekend floods and blizzards from the latest winter storm to pound the United States
A pedestrian walks across the Highway 38 overpass above I-15 in the California Cajon Pass on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 as heavy snow falls. The storm cell moved quickly through the area though more snow is in the forecast. LOS ANGELES — — California and other parts of the West girded Friday for floods and blizzards from the latest winter storm to pound the U.S., while thousands of people in Michigan shivered through extended power outages wrought by one of the worst ice storms in decades.
Much of Oregon’s largest city was shut down after almost a foot of snow fell unexpectedly. It took drivers in Portland by surprise, stalling traffic during the Wednesday evening rush hour and trapping motorists on freeways, some of whom spent the night in their cars. All told, the storms have blacked out nearly 1 million homes and businesses from coast to coast. Michigan was hardest hit after a storm coated branches, power lines and utility poles with ice, putting more than 820,000 customers in the dark at one point. By Friday, that was down to more than 700,000, many in the state's populous southeast corner, around Detroit.
Parts of Interstate 80 in California and Wyoming closed, including about a 70-mile stretch over the top of the Sierra Nevada linking California and Nevada.
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