Amy Taxin
The Associated Press
Southern California, CA, United States
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Volunteers in mountain towns dig out snow-stuck Californians
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) — After a blizzard swept through Southern California mountains, 79-year-old Alan Zagorsky found himself shut inside his home with snow blocking the door and stairways leading out. He and his wife had enough food to get through the 10 days until volunteers finally arrived Wednesday to help clear roughly 10 feet […] → Read More
Volunteers in mountain towns dig out snow-stuck Californians
Volunteers with shovels have arrived in Southern California mountain communities to help clear walkways and driveways of residents who have been confined to their homes since a historic blizzard dumped more than six feet of snow → Read More
Volunteers in mountain towns dig out snow-stuck Californians
In a once-a-generation weather event, staggering amounts of snow fell in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountain ranges in late February, where thousands of people live in wooded enclaves. → Read More
Teen hikers rescued after days stuck in California snowstorm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When his 17-year-old son and friend headed off for a 10-day trek in the Southern California mountains, Cesar Ramirez said he wasn’t too worried. The teens were avid hikers with ample foods in their backpacks, a tent and snowshoes, plus extensive training and aspirations to join the military. But when the […] → Read More
Teen hikers rescued after days stuck in California snowstorm
Search crews have rescued Californians stranded for days in multiple feet of snow after back-to-back storms plastered the state’s mountain communities and trapped many in their homes → Read More
Trapped Californians rescued from snow, helped by neighbors
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Search crews have rescued Californians stranded for days in multiple feet of snow after back-to-back storms plastered the state’s mountain communities and trapped many in their homes. In Inyo County on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, volunteer rescuers tried for days to locate a man who was last heard […] → Read More
California’s snow-stranded residents need food, plows, help
With Southern California’s mountain communities under a snow emergency, residents are grappling with power outages, roof collapses, storm-related fires and lack of baby formula and medicine. Many have been trapped in their homes for a week, their cars buried under snow. → Read More
California's snow-stranded residents need food, plows, help
With Southern California’s mountain communities under a snow emergency, residents are grappling with power outages, roof collapses, storm-related fires and lack of baby formula and medicine → Read More
California's snow-stranded residents need food, plows, help
With Southern California’s mountain communities under a snow emergency, residents are grappling with power outages, roof collapses, storm-related fires and lack of baby formula and medicine → Read More
California’s snow-stranded residents need food, plows, help
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olivia Duke said she’s been trapped in her home in the snow-plastered mountains east of Los Angeles for so long that by Thursday the only food she had left was oatmeal. Snow plows have created a wall of ice between her driveway and the road in the San Bernardino Mountains, and […] → Read More
To the rooftops: Staggering snowfall in California mountains
Emergency crews are scrambling to shuttle food and medicine to residents of California mountain communities stranded by back-to-back winter storms → Read More
California, beleaguered by earlier storms, gets fresh snow
A new storm has dumped fresh snow in the California mountains that are still staggering from earlier blizzards that stranded people and closed roads → Read More
California, beleaguered by earlier storms, gets fresh snow
RUNNING SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Fresh snow fell in the California mountains on Wednesday, adding to a staggering total that had blocked roads and stranded visitors for days. The Sierra Nevada range in the north and Southern California mountains were under blizzard warnings for a storm that was expected to add several feet of snow […] → Read More
While California wearies of snowstorms, Northeast greets one
Beleaguered Californians are being hit again by a new winter storm in the already snow-plastered state → Read More
From battered California to New England, snow bookends US
Beleaguered Californians are being hit again by a new winter storm in the already drenched and snow-plastered state → Read More
As snow storms continue to blanket California, the East Coast gets its blizzard makeover
The latest storm in California was one of two bookending the country, with snow closing or delaying the opening for hundreds of schools in the Northeast. → Read More
Elephants in US zoos? Without breeding, future is uncertain
A community in the heart of California's farm belt has been drawn into a growing global debate over whether elephants should be in zoos → Read More
Snow falls in Los Angeles area, 1,000s still without power
Parts of the West are facing heavy snow and rain from the latest winter storm to pound the United States. → Read More
Snow falls in Los Angeles area, 1,000s still without power
Parts of the West are facing heavy snow and rain from the latest winter storm to pound the United States. → Read More
Blizzards forecast in California mountains in multiday storm
Parts of the West are facing heavy snow and rain from the latest winter storm to pound the United States. → Read More