The Los Angeles County Sheriff, Robert Luna, said at a press conference on Wednesday that people should be prepared to leave and expect to be away from their homes for several days.
“Remember, if it is ordered to leave, you may leave for several days. I can’t stop here and tell you that you will have gone for 12 hours, 24 hours,” he said. “We do not know. It depends on the weather and the events after the weather that will affect its specific neighborhood.”
A particular concern is the large number of people not made in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. Many of those who camp in high -risk areas have been warned and have been told to move.
“Unfortunately, we witnessed numerous, numerous cases in the past of fast water rescues where people were trapped in dangerous and fast water in motion, and obviously, we want to avoid that,” Luna said at the press conference.
In other places, the strong snow will move through the western states on Thursday and Friday, with the heaviest around the mountains of Sierra Nevada, where between 6 and 8 feet of snow, the NWS said. The trips will become dangerous here and in mountainous parts of the west of Colorado and Utah.
The ice rain is also a risk in the northwest of the Pacific, with 0.1 inches of ice that is expected to be formed on Thursday.
The Arctic meteorological system that currently creates snowy and frost conditions in the central plains and southern will move east and Atlantic on Saturday. Temperatures are still cold in some areas, reaching 15 to 25 degrees below seasonal averages in the Mississippi valley and plains. There is still an extreme cold warning about much of North Dakota.
Almost 200,000 energy clients were without energy on Thursday morning, according to Poweroutage.us, since the cold continued in large part of the Eastern Coast and the Middle Atlantic.
The strong snow will continue to develop on New England, the big lakes and the Ohio Valley on Thursday, before turning east towards the central appalaches, where there is a risk of dangerous travel conditions, damage to trees and possible power cuts .
