the roads, snow covered streets impacting the foothills on sunday. coming up, be careful it s slippery. chain controls active sunday in pollack pines and further down highway 50 and on interstate 82 where snow dumped over the weekend. the foothills not hit as hard but still the first big snow of the season. we ve seen a lot of that slushy, watery mixture on the roadways which is slippery but seeing this, tightly packed in snow that s closer to ice. you can see how hard this is on the roadway. so, of course, the message is take it very slow especially on the side roads and parking lots to make sure you re not slipping on the roadways. more than 50 million people in 14 states are under winter weather alerts this morning. over the next couple of days the system could bring a major snow system from colorado to
More snow and rain pummeled California, causing travel disruptions on mountain routes in the Sierra, power outages and stranding many who wanted to return home from their extended Christmas holiday break.
With the massive Caldor Fire blazing less than 15 miles away on Friday, many residents of South Lake Tahoe and neighboring communities had packed up their valuables and were awaiting evacuation orders.