Winter weather across the West, beyond
Scenes from a frozen, snowy weekend in Seattle, California, Idaho and elsewhere.
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Seattle residents, who are used to sledding on minimal amounts of snow, make the most of the patchy covering on Gas Works Park's Kite Hill in Seattle on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008.
Paul Brown Associated Press
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Heavy snow falls on Highway 138 near Sutherlin, Ore., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008. The National Weather service is calling for more wintry weather over the next few days for the area.
Robin Loznak Associated Press
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With ice coating his eyebrows, Rory Strange of Duluth, Minn., takes a break while snow plowing his neighbor's sidewalk, during the blizzard on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 in Park Point in Duluth. Strange had already spent a couple hours outside snow blowing. "It's all the stuff that blows back and you," said Strange. "That's what makes it brutal."
Amanda Hansmeyer Associated Press
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Madelyn Freeze, 7, front, Madison Jones, 10, and Skylar Godwin,15, top, slide down a hill together at Green Mountain Elementary School near Seabeck, Wash. on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008.
Larry Steagall Associated Press
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Two-year-old Danielle Keith smiles as she sleds down a sidewalk after being propelled by her father Dale, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 in Nampa, Idaho.
Charlie Litchfield Associated Press
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Giavanna Martinelli, 10, of Colfax, goes for a ride on a snow sled with her father Christopher in Cisco Grove, Calif. on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008.
Hector Amezcua Associated Press
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Ice and snow covers Mike Bauer as he pushes a snow blower in Bismarck, N.D., on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. The temperature at the time was -12 degrees. Bauer said he was not cold and that he had been working on the sidewalk in front of a downtown restaurant all day, off and on.
Will Kincaid Associated Press
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Bundled up after a cold night on Puget Sound, Steve Goodrich and Taylor Bliss, right, carefully walk along the frost-covered pier at Swantown Marina in Olympia, Wash. during the early morning hours of Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. Along with the sixteen year-old's father Paul, the trio sailed the family's 25-foot newly purchased sailboat named "Miss Bliss" from Tacoma, leaving around 8:45 Saturday night. After a chilly 12-hours trip they docked in Olympia around 9 a.m. Sunday with Goodrich adding, "We has just enough snow to make it uncomfortable".
Steve Bloom The Spokesman-Review
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Traffic moves Westbound on Interstate 80 near Cisco Grove on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 during the area's first snow storm. A snowstorm lifted the spirits of skiers, but frustrated motorists on Sunday in the Lake Tahoe area. Chains were required on all three highways linking the Sacramento, Calif. and Tahoe areas: Interstate 80 over Donner Summit, U.S. 50 over Echo Summit and Highway 88 over Carson Pass.
Hector Amezcua Associated Press
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A snowplow leads a line of motorists down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 84, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 near the Franklin Boulevard exit in Nampa, Idaho. Several inches of snow fell Saturday night and into Sunday morning making travel conditions hazardous throughout much of Southwest Idaho.
Charlie Litchfield Associated Press
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This scene shows frozen trees on the campus of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008. Cold weather continued to keep ice on trees in the region after a devastating ice storm destroyed utility poles, wires and other equipment, making some roads impassable. Utility officials trying to recover from the ice storm in the Northeast warned there could be more outages Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 as drooping branches shed ice and snap back to their original positions, potentially taking out more power lines.
Steve Hooper Associated Press