While southern California officials are working to clear roads and provide food and emergency services after record snowfall, some residents are frustrated with the response.
equipment and highways have intermittently been open with a warning that anyone who goes down may not be allowed back up.
While more removal equipment and grocery trucks were brought into the area and distribution centers were set up – with the National Guard also responding and search and rescue teams conducting residence checks and digging out gas meters – residents lending a helping hand are exhausted. Resident Jessica Neakarse helps re-stock Mountain High Market after a series of winter storms dropped more than 100 inches of snow in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California on March 6, 2023, in Twin Peaks, California.
Andrew Braggins, of Crestline, told The Associated Press that most of his neighbors' properties are still buried days later. He and his wife have been taking boxes of food from the distribution center and delivering them to neighbors. "We have to climb over 10-foot snow berms and carry them through deep snow down 60-foot driveways. It is exhausting," Braggins said.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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