winter whop today. an arctic blast from alaska. won't be saying it again for a long time. will bring an inch of rain or more and wind gusts. town town los angeles has seen its wettest december in a long time. a preliminary investigation blames high winds for tuesday's ski lift accident in maine. eight people were hurt when several chairs tumbled to the ground. some 200 skiers were stranded on the lift. one a cnn employee. >> all of the sudden there was a gust of wind and it was a bump. we felt a little bump. a strange bump you don't feel on chair lifts. and we looked up and we saw the five chair lifts fall to the ground in a big puff of white powder snow came up and people started screaming in horror that