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• Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.
• Photos of the Week: Burning Bull, Blue Forest, Olympic Flame
• Column: Why storms like this one will make solving homelessness even harder for L.A.
• SUMMER SPACE FOR RENT: SNO-HAUS HUNTINGTON, NOW THROUGH LABOR DAY
• Thompson, Garamendi Join President Biden to Announce Expansion of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument
• Photos: Yosemite National Park blanketed in snow Park closed indefinitely

Storm clouds cloak downtown high rises in Los Angeles, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, as a major winter storm sweeps through California. The National Weather Service said it was "one of the strongest storms ever to hit southwest California." For weeks last winter, many San Bernardino Mountains residents remained trapped in their homes, buried under as much as 12 feet of snow, some without power for as long as six days. Almost 350 residences and businesses were damaged or destroyed — including one of the area’s largest grocery stores, whose roof collapsed, and several houses that exploded because of buried gas meters. Unusual serpentine wetlands occur along Molok Luyuk, as well as on downslope benches and along Highway 20 near the Colusa-Lake county line.

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Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

When the studio shut down, producer Ward Lascelle, spared it from demolition and moved it to Walden Drive in Beverly Hills in 1926, where it now serves as a personal residence. The house was given an intentionally dilapidated look with a distressed paint job and overgrown English-style garden and a moat-like pond. The house’s wacky architecture made it a popular landmark in Beverly Hills, and inspired others to create more such storybook houses. The Witch’s House even appeared in a fair number of movies, starting from the silent era Hansel and Gretel (1923) to Clueless (1995).

Photos of the Week: Burning Bull, Blue Forest, Olympic Flame

This soil chemistry imposed evolutionary pressure resulting in a profusion of unique species and habitats that are inhospitable to non-native species that may dominate elsewhere. Vandi Mahoney watched television images of snow falling across parts of Southern California the last few days as a massive winter storm moved through the region, but on Sunday she just had to see it for herself. Rep. Thompson sponsored the legislation, cosponsored by Reps. Garamendi, Huffman and Matsui, that called for the initial designation of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in 2013. In July 2015, President Obama issued a presidential proclamation designating federal land surrounding the Lake Berryessa reservoir as a new national monument. The Monument's designation has since played a crucial role in protecting the biodiversity of Northern California. The National Weather Service said it was one of the strongest storms to ever hit southwest California and even as the volume of wind and rain dropped, it continued to have significant impact including snowfall down to elevations as low as 1,000 feet (305 meters).

Column: Why storms like this one will make solving homelessness even harder for L.A.

The Los Angeles Fire Department used a helicopter to rescue four homeless people who were stranded in the river's major flood control basin. Two were taken to a hospital with hypothermia, said spokesperson Brian Humphrey. Hospital staff slept on cots in offices, with 10 nurses rotating through shifts, while other staff maintained cleaning and food services, said Davis, who couldn’t get home to her 5-year-old son and husband for six days. Her insurer declined her claim, and a Small Business Administration loan covered only about half the necessary repairs.

Though winter isn’t over, and a renewed dry spell could still materialize in March, the significant storm and the systems that drenched the Golden State in January have defied expectations of a dry winter. Climatologists say the storms will probably be beneficial for drought recovery after years of prolonged dryness. On Sunday morning, Los Angeles Fire Department crews took two adults who were experiencing signs of hypothermia and their pet cat to the hospital.

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At least two homes in the 400 block of Paulette Place in La Cañada Flintridge were damaged by debris flow and evacuated, according to CBS Los Angeles. Big Bear spokesperson Justin Kanton said the resort hasn’t made a determination yet on whether the snow brought by this week’s storm will lead to an extended season. A pioneer of this peculiar architectural style was Hollywood art director Harry Oliver.

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Through Proclamation 9298 of July 10, 2015, President Obama established the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument (monument) to protect an array of spectacular historic, cultural, geologic, and ecological resources in the heart of northern California’s Inner Coast Range. The ridgeline, also known as Walker Ridge, is flanked by chaparral-covered canyons, serpentinite outcroppings, oak and cypress woodlands, and spring-fed meadows. Lands within the Molok Luyuk area show evidence of occupation by Indigenous peoples for more than 10,000 years. The historical significance of Molok Luyuk contributes to its cultural and spiritual significance to the Patwin people, and many other Indigenous peoples from northern California also have ties to the area, including the Pomo, Lake Miwok, Yuki, and Nomlaki. The area around Molok Luyuk has long contained numerous objects of scientific and historic interest.

Thompson, Garamendi Join President Biden to Announce Expansion of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument

Before coming to The Times, she covered breaking news for the Mercury News and national politics and California courts for McClatchy’s publications, including the Sacramento Bee. An East Coast native, Lin moved to California after graduating from Boston College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. California’s deadly storm season turned even deadlier Friday as the first of two atmospheric river storms descended on the state, prompting widespread evacuation orders as it flooded creeks and rivers and dropped warm, heavy rain atop the state’s near-record snowpack.

Photos: Yosemite National Park blanketed in snow Park closed indefinitely

But repairs, lost wages and insufficient short-term housing options are keeping some people in the red, said Rhea-Frances Tetley, 72, a longtime Crestline resident. He’s worried the cracked and now-leaning deck, which sits up the hill from his street and other homes, could give way at any moment — especially under the weight of more snow. Rowe said she would like the county to have one website for all emergency updates, and have the Office of Emergency Services return to the purview of first responders — the latter also a recommendation from the Sheriff’s Department. When the roads finally cleared, more than a dozen people had died, many found in their homes.

Here are some of the remarkable images captured of the snowstorm that shocked residents across Southern California. Weekend snow also was forecast for parts of the upper Midwest to the Northeast, with pockets of freezing rain over some areas of the central Appalachians. Nathan Solis is a Metro reporter covering breaking news at the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked for Courthouse News Service, where he wrote both breaking news and enterprise stories ranging from criminal justice to homelessness and politics. Before that, Solis was at the Redding Record Searchlight as a multimedia journalist, where he anchored coverage of the destructive 2017 fires in Northern California.

This is in contrast to an igloo, which is built up from blocks of hard snow, and a snow cave, constructed by digging into the snow. The word is of Athabaskan origin[1][2] and entered the English language by 1984.[3] A quinzhee can be made for winter camping and survival purposes, or for fun. Nothing in this proclamation shall be deemed to revoke any existing withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation; however, the monument shall be the dominant reservation. Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of the monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof. The Secretary shall evaluate opportunities to enter into one or more agreements with governments, including State, local, and Tribal, regarding protection of the objects identified above during wildland fire prevention and response efforts.