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4A Thursday, February 23, 2023 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com NATION Winter storm brings snow, strong winds, frigid cold to West AMANCAI BIRABEN I Associated Press Carolyn and Dan Ellwood shovel snow outside Second Edition in Pierre, S.D. on Wednesday, Feb. 22. Brutal winter weather hammered the northern U.S. Wednesday with “whiteout” snow, dangerous wind gusts and bitter cold, shutting down roadways, closing schools and businesses and prompting dire warnings for people to stay home. BY AMANCAI BIRABEN AND JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. — A bru tal winter storm knocked out power in California, closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming and prompted more than 1,500 flight cancellations Wednesday — and the worst won’t be over for sev eral days. Few places were untouched by the wild weather, some at the oppo site extreme: long-standing record highs were broken in cities in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The wintry mix was hit ting hard in the northern tier of the nation, closing schools, offices, even shut ting down the Minnesota Legislature. Travel was difficult. Weather contrib uted to more than 1,500 U.S. flight cancellations, according to the tracking service FlightAware. More than 400 of those were due to arrive or depart from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Inter national Airport. Another 4,400-plus were delayed across the country. The roads were just as bad. “A major winter storm and multi-day closures are likely on Interstates and secondary roads through out Wyoming!” the state Transportation Depart ment said on Facebook. It wasn’t much better in neighboring states. “Sometimes it’s physi cally impossible to keep up with Mother Nature,” said North Dakota Highway Patrol Sgt. Wade Kadrmas. He warned those who venture out to dress appro priately. Often, when motorists get stranded, “They don’t have a win ter jacket. They might be wearing shorts and flip- flops, just thinking they’re going to get from point A to point B and nothing is going to go wrong,” he said. Kelly Cross has spent his entire 60 years in South Dakota, but even he tires of the wintry weather that often spills well into spring. Besides the regular snow shoveling at his Pierre store, K&C Western Wear, he’s gone through pounds of salt to keep the walkway clear. The company of his terrier, Penny, makes the slog to work tolerable. “She comes with me every day,” Cross said. In the Pacific Northwest, high winds and heavy snow in the Cascade Mountains prevented search teams from reaching the bodies of three climbers killed in an avalanche on Washing ton’s Colchuck Peak over the weekend. Two experts from the Northwest Ava lanche Center were hiking to the scene Wednesday to determine if conditions might permit a recovery attempt later this week. Powerful winds were the biggest problem in Cali fornia, toppling trees and power lines. By Wednes day afternoon, more than 88,000 customers in the state were without electric ity, according to Power- Outage.us. A 1-year-old child was critically injured when a redwood crashed onto a home in Boulder Creek, a community in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco, KTVU reported. Chief Mark Bing ham of the local fire pro tection district said crews had to cut up the tree to free the victim. A blizzard warning was issued for the mountains of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara coun ties, effective from 4 a.m. Thursday to 4 p.m. Satur day, the National Weather Service said. “Nearly the entire popu lation of CA will be able to see snow from some van tage point later this week if they look in the right direc tion (i.e., toward the high est hills in vicinity),” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain tweeted. A more than 200-mile stretch of Interstate 40 from central Arizona to the New Mexico line closed due to snow, ran and wind gusts of up to 80 mph. 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