Rare blizzard warnings were in place for Southern California mountains and forecasters warned of 5 feet of snow at higher elevations, while other parts of the country were still recovering from a major winter storm.
— which is a fragile type of frozen precipitation also called soft hail — fell on Mount Lee in Los Angeles, where the Hollywood sign is, the weather service said after having examined video.Traffic was held up Thursday on Highway 50 in Meyers, south of Lake Tahoe, because of spinouts, the agency said, and Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada, from the Nevada state line to Colfax, was closed in both directions. Some cameras in the area were frozen.
Meanwhile Thursday, much of Midwest and the Northeast was recovering from a major winter storm that hit this week. More than 790,000 electricity customers were without power Thursday night, according to the outage tracking websiteDTE Energy, the state's largest power and gas company, said it had 3,000 wires down.
Lauer urged people to stay inside. Downed energized lines can be hidden by tree branches, and if they are on a fence, the fence can become electrified."It’s an extremely dangerous condition right now that we have," he said.
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