Twelve people have died after powerful storms hit Southern California's San Bernardino County and cut off mountain communities, officials say.
Members of the California Army National Guard shovel snow from a rooftop after a series of winter storms dropped more than 100 inches of snow in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California, March 8, 2023, in Crestline, Calif.Twelve people have died after powerful storms hit Southern California's San Bernardino County and cut off mountain communities.
A series of snowstorms brought unprecedented snow to California late February into early March. San Bernardino County declared a local emergency on Feb. 27 "after residents of mountain communities found themselves trapped at home or unable to reach home due to several feet of snow that fell over the weekend," officials said at the time.
On Feb. 23, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the San Bernardino Mountains, the first in more than three decades. The weather service initially forecast a snowfall of about 5 feet at elevations as low as 5,000 feet. "We continue to support our allied agencies who made great progress overnight on utility restoration. Last night deputies responded to several well checks; residents were safe, supplied,& assisting residents," the sheriff's department said Wednesday.Christine Foster, who lives in the San Bernardino Mountains, told ABC News on Monday that she and her 76-year-old father have been hunkered down, unable to get out of their home for 14 days with food running low.
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