'Avalanche!' Blizzard Leaves 1 Dead at California Ski Resort
(LOS ANGELES) — Heather Turping was snowboarding with her boyfriend when she heard someone scream “Avalanche!”
Then Turping, 39, saw “a cloud of snow coming down.”
The avalanche that hit Friday at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort caught five people — one day after a snowboarder died there during a blizzard as a winter storm rolled through California.
The storm that steamrollered through the Sierra Nevada still threatened rain and snow through Saturday afternoon in Southern California, a few hundred miles away.
The National Weather Service said mountains in Ventura and Los Angeles counties could see up to a foot of new snow at higher elevations.
Other areas could see some showers before an eastward-moving low-pressure trough moved on but forecasters said it wouldn’t be enough to cause major flooding.