LiveCalifornia snowstorm! More than 280,000 objects were damaged, schools and airports were closed!

A severe winter storm has slammed into the northern United States, closing interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. That prompted the first blizzard warning for Southern California in decades. Few places were spared the wild weather, including at the opposite extremes, with long-standing records broken in cities across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. According to , about 280,000 properties nationwide were without power, nearly half of them in Michigan, where snow, sleet and freezing rain iced power lines, leaving them vulnerable to wind gusts. The winter mix has hit the northern US hard, closing schools and offices, even shutting down the Minnesota Legislature. The journey was difficult. According to the tracking service, the weather contributed to the cancellation of more than 1,600 flights to the United States. More than 400 of them were scheduled to arrive or depart from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Mor