Two dead as western US lashed by snow, rain: officials

Comments | AFP, January, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Heavy snow and rain pounded the western United States for a third day Sunday as state officials confirmed two fatalities from the storms that have pummeled the region.

California was drenched with up to 10 inches (25 cm) of rainfall in some regions as mountain communities in the east of state and neighboring Nevada were blanketed by nearly six feet (two meters) of snow in places, National Weather Service figures showed.

Around 110,000 homes and businesses remained affected by power outages across California, down from more than 800,000 on Friday when the worst of a series of storms slammed into San Francisco and its surrounding areas.

A spokeswoman with the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services said Sunday there had been...