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- NATION, Page 41American NotesLOS ANGELESA Blizzard in Tinseltown
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- Ah, Los Angeles. Sunshine, palm trees, snowballs. Snowballs?
- Yep -- and kids whooshing down snow-covered hills on
- skateboards, while cars skidded on icy roads. During one
- magical day last week, as much as a foot of the white stuff fell
- across a four-county area in Southern California. Local children
- got a rare glimpse of what Northerners mean by winter. Debbie
- Uyeno and her family built a snowman in their front yard and
- even piled flakes into the hot tub. "I don't ever remember
- snow," said Debbie, 12. "It was fun." Not for everybody. More
- than 10,000 customers lost electrical power, and drifts forced
- the closing of parts of Interstate 5, California's main
- north-south artery, causing monumental traffic jams. The unusual
- weather left thousands of vacationers moping in Palm Springs and
- did frost damage to citrus groves and flowers scheduled to be
- picked for Valentine's Day. By the next day, though, most of the
- snow had melted, disappearing as suddenly as it had arrived.
- Maybe it was all just a special effect.
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