Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Two dead, more than 100 drivers stranded amid Southern California winter storm

(Reuters) - Two people, including a harbor patrolman, died on a wind-beaten Southern California coastal island and emergency crews rescued more than 100 drivers trapped in the snow-caked mountains outside Los Angeles as a fierce winter storm crept over the region, officials said on Wednesday. A harbor patrolman was killed in a boating accident in the City of Avalon on wind-battered Catalina Island, off the southern California coast, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Local broadcast footage showed wind-whipped ocean waters pushing two boats up onto the beach. ...



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