Vehicles are lined up on northbound Interstate 5 waiting for the freeway to reopen near Redding, California.
“We’ve been white knuckling it for the last four hours and sliding around the road,” said Lisa Chadwick after she stopped in Bend, Oregon, driving north from San Francisco.The US Midwest was also hit hard by a storm that clobbered Denver on Tuesday, with airports in Minneapolis and Chicago suffering hundreds of delays and cancellations.
The storm, which is packing high winds, will move across upper Michigan and upstate New York toward central Maine, which could get 15 to 25cm of snow, the Weather Service forecast.On the West Coast, heavy rain threatened flash floods from San Diego to Los Angeles. A silver lining was that rain doused the Cave Fire in Santa Barbara County, which charred 1,810 hectares of brush and woodlands.