LOS ANGELES: Heavy snow and rain pounded California and other parts of the West on Friday in the nation's latest winter storm, while tens of thousands of people in Michigan suffered in freezing temperatures days after one of the worst ice storms in decades caused widespread power outages.
Days of winter storms blacked out nearly 1 million homes and businesses from coast to coast, closed major roads, caused pileups on highways and snarled air travel. More than 460 flights were canceled and more than 7,400 were delayed Friday across the US, according to FlightAware.com.In California, the National Weather Service warned of cold, snowy and rainy weather lasting through Saturday and issued flash flood warnings through 10 p.m.
But promises of power restoration by Sunday, when low temperatures were expected to climb back above zero , were of little consolation.'That's four days without power in such weather,' said Apurva Gokhale, of Walled Lake, Michigan. 'It's unthinkable.'Tom Rankin said he and his wife were unable to reach his 100-year-old mother-in-law Friday morning by phone.
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