When they arrived, they found cars scattered by wind, downed power poles and seemingly endless debris. Reports of wind damage followed.įire Station 15 received a report of a woman trapped in a car near Hill Street and Jefferson Boulevard. A city fire department ambulance team responding to a separate call first reported a funnel-type cloud near 47th Street and Broadway at 7:59 a.m. when the tornado began carving its way through neighborhoods near downtown Los Angeles. Also contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Julie Walker in New York Claire Rush in Oregon and Scott Sonner in Nevada along with AP journalists throughout the country.Average gas price rockets past $6 in LA County for first time in nearly a year This story has been corrected to show the person who died in Portland, Oregon, died of hypothermia, not hyperthermia. More snow was expected overnight and Sunday. While the city saw sunny skies and temperatures approaching 40 degrees Saturday afternoon, the reprieve - and thaw - was short-lived. Much of Portland was shut down with icy roads after the city’s second-heaviest snowfall on record this week: nearly 11 inches (28 centimeters). Authorities in Portland, Oregon, said a person died of hypothermia. A Michigan firefighter died Wednesday after coming into contact with a downed power line, while in Rochester, Minnesota, a pedestrian died after being hit by a city-operated snowplow. The storm was expected to reach the central high Plains by Sunday evening.Īt least three people have died in the coast-to-coast storms. Weekend snow also was forecast for parts of the upper Midwest to the Northeast, with pockets of freezing rain over some areas of the central Appalachians. In Arizona, the heaviest snow was expected late Saturday through midday Sunday, with up to a foot of new snow possible in Flagstaff, forecasters said. Nearly 2 feet (61 cm) of new snow had fallen by Friday and up to another 5 feet (1.5 meters) was expected when another storm moves in with the potential for gale-force winds and high-intensity flurries Sunday, the weather service said. The low-pressure system was also expected to bring widespread rain and snow in southern Nevada by Saturday afternoon and across northwest Arizona Saturday night and Sunday morning, the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas said.Īn avalanche warning was issued for the Sierra Nevada backcountry around Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border. The destruction is insane.”īack in California, the Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service forecast heavy snow over the Cascade Mountains and the Sierra Nevada through the weekend.
“There’s just tree limbs everywhere, half of the trees just falling down. “The ice that was falling off the trees as it was melting was hitting our windshield so hard, I was afraid it was going to crack,” she said. Both said they hope to have the lights back on for most of their customers by Sunday night.Īfter driving to a relative’s home to store food, Rinker, 27, compared the destruction of trees to tornado damage. More than 350,000 customers were without power in Michigan as of early Saturday afternoon, according to reports from the the two main utilities in the state, DTE and Consumers Energy.
Meanwhile, people farther east were struggling to deal with the fallout from storms earlier this week. “It’s miserable when you’re outside in the elements,” he said. He said this winter has been wetter than usual. Lightning strikes shut down LA County beaches and scattered bursts of snow, showers and thunderstorms persisted.ĭerek Maiden, 57, who lives in a tent in LA’s Echo Park neighborhood, collected cans in the rain to take to a recycling center. The storm, fueled by low pressure rotating off the coast, did not depart quietly. No one was hurt, KCAL-TV reported, but one resident described the scene as devastating. In the Valencia area of north Los Angeles County, the roiling Santa Clara River carried away three motorhomes early Saturday after carving into an embankment where an RV park is located.
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