Snow in So. California, UK a mess, frogs to follow

by Snelgrove Bottomly | January 18, 2007 at 07:38 am

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I saw snow in San Diego in 1962. My dad was stationed at the Navy's Coronado Air Station. I was in the 10th grade and we all ran to the windows in school. Europe is

LOS ANGELES – A fast-moving cold storm dropped snow in the mountains above Malibu, left white coats of hail in the city and unleashed a blizzard Wednesday that closed Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles.

It was the latest blast from a cold snap that has kept California in an icy grip for a week.

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Sleet made driving treacherous on Kanan Dume Road, a steep route through the Santa Monica Mountains where it's more typical to see beach-bound cars loaded with surfboards than a snowplow.