Los Angeles (AP) Snow snarled major mountain highways Wednesday as a new wave of winterlike weather moved through California. One person was killed in a wind-related helicopter crash and numerous traffic accidents occurred.
Snow shut Interstate 15 over 4,190-foot Cajon Pass east of Los Angeles (about 65 miles) and roads through the San Gabriel Mountains connecting metropolitan Los Angeles to the commuter suburbs of Palmdale and Lancaster in the high desert to the north.
Calen Weiss, 19, of Tarzana (a community in Los Angeles), his brother and two friends wanted to go to snowboarding at Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains but instead got stuck on I-15 in Cajon Pass for an hour as visibility fell to about 40 yards.
“It looks like Whoville, all snowy, but with less joy and more extreme misery,” he said by phone from the Summit Inn.
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Meanwhile the city temperature dropped to a chilly 40º. The chances of snow falling in Los Angeles are remote.
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