{"id":218396,"date":"2010-01-22T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877012c0c970c"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:26:35","slug":"storms-leave-blanket-of-snow-on-southern-california-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218396","title":{"rendered":"Storms leave blanket of snow on Southern California mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-storm19-2010jan19-pictures,0,4471623.photogallery\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snow\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287701527d970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287701527d970c-600wi\" style=\"width: 600px;\" title=\"Snow\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br> Skiers and snowboarders looking to take advantage of 2 to 3 feet of snow dumped across Southern California\u2019s mountains may want to wait until next week when another 6 to 12 inches is expected to fall, weather experts said.<\/p>\n<p>\nSnow levels should reach about 3,000 feet today and possibly as low as 2,500 feet, according to a National Weather Service official.<\/p>\n<p>All roads to Big Bear were closed this morning until further notice. According to Caltrans, there were cars stuck on Highway 330.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOn these types of days you got everybody wanting to get up there with their snowboards,\u201d said California Highway Patrol Officer Tommy Cunningham.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bear Mountain resort has closed its doors for the day because of electrical power problems and \u201ctoo much snow,\u201d said Dallas Goldsmith, manager of a local ski and snowboard shop. By this morning, six customers had wandered into his shop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut next weekend,\u201d he said, \u201cbusiness will get fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Lifts lay partly buried in nearly four feet of powder that would be a winter sports enthusiast\u2019s dream were it not for the difficult conditions reaching the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s still dumping,\u201d Goldsmith said. \u201cIf you live up here on a side street, you\u2019re stuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Orange County, snow was creeping down to the 4,000-feet mark at Santiago Peak in the Santa Ana Mountains.<\/p>\n<p> And in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge, real estate agent Fran Vernon looked out her window to see powder dusting the foothills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s come down lower than I\u2019ve seen it, and I\u2019ve lived here since 1985,\u201d Vernon marveled. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful sight.\u201d <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Amina Khan<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: La Canada Flintridge residents are treated to an early morning view of a light dusting of snow in the local foothills and San Gabriel Mountains. Credit: Mark Boster \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-storm19-2010jan19-pictures,0,4471623.photogallery\">More storm photos &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skiers and snowboarders looking to take advantage of 2 to 3 feet of snow dumped across Southern California\u2019s mountains may want to wait until next week when another 6 to 12 inches is expected to fall, weather experts said. Snow levels should reach about 3,000 feet today and possibly as low as 2,500 feet, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}