A major Christmas weekend storm caused whiteout conditions and closed key highways in mountains of Northern California and Nevada.
Turbulent weather stretched from San Diego to Seattle, where some residential streets were closed to traffic on Sunday.A major Christmas weekend storm caused whiteout conditions and closed key highways amid blowing snow in mountains of Northern California and Nevada, with forecasters warning that travel in the Sierra Nevada could be difficult for several days.
Authorities near Reno said three people were injured in a 20-car pileup on Interstate 395, where drivers described limited visibility on Sunday. Further west, a 70-mile stretch of Interstate 80 was shut until at least Monday from Colfax, Calif., through the Lake Tahoe region to the Nevada state line.
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