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    Emergency crews in California scrambled Wednesday to shuttle food and medicine to mountain communities stranded by back-to-back winter storms that have dumped so much snow some residents can barely see out their windows.

    In San Bernardino County east of Los Angeles, around-the-clock plowing is underway but it could take more than a week to reach some areas, said Dawn Rowe, chair of the county鈥檚 board of supervisors. Residents are dealing with as much as 7 feet (2 metres) of snow, and sheriffs鈥 authorities have conducted 17 rescue operations to help off-roaders and skiers. Emergency crews are trying to reach residents who need assistance.

    In Crestline, the entire roof of Goodwin and Sons Market collapsed Wednesday as safety inspectors were onsite checking up on reported damage. Officials raced to salvage food that residents sorely need from its shelves.

    Rowe said no one was injured.

    鈥淲e know that roofs are starting to collapse,鈥 she said. 鈥淭here are other businesses that will likely be affected by the weight of the snow.鈥

    The county has set up a hotline for residents dealing with issues like frozen pipes, roof problems and food shortages. The San Bernardino Mountains are a major tourism and recreation destination but also home to a large year-round population in small cities and communities around lakes and scattered along winding roads. About 80,000 people live either part- or full-time in the communities affected, said David Wert, a county spokesman.

    Reprieve was on the way as the mountain community continued to dig out, with much of California expecting drier weather on Thursday. A key mountain section of Interstate 5, a major north-south highway, reopened Wednesday afternoon following closures due to snowy conditions, while blizzard warnings expired in the Sierra Nevada further north.

    Anthony Cimino, a 51-year-old retiree, said he鈥檚 been snowed in for about a week in the mountain community of Running Springs. He finally managed to clear his decks, but not for long.

    鈥淚 woke up this morning and there was another two-and-a-half feet on them,鈥 he said. 鈥淚t was kind of like Groundhog Day.鈥

    Residents of these towns are grappling with so much snow they're running out of space to put it; clearing one area adds heaps to another. Grocery shelves had run bare of some items, like bread, and were running low on eggs and milk Tuesday. Cars remained buried under snow and roads closed.

    At David and Kelli G贸ra's home in Big Bear Lake, the snow on the roof is now touching the snow on the ground. They shovelled a small area to let their dogs go outside, but are mostly hunkered down.

    鈥淲e鈥檝e been through some big storms 鈥 but this is just unreal,鈥 David G贸ra said. 鈥淚鈥檝e never seen anything like it anywhere.鈥

    Over the past week, historic snowfall, ice and cold temperatures brought much of Portland, Oregon, to a standstill, trapping drivers on roads and highways, paralyzing government services and leading to at least two suspected hypothermia deaths.

    While the West Coast grappled with wintry weather, forecasters warned a new, powerful weather system will affect most of the lower 48 states this week. Six to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimetres) of snow could eventually fall in upstate New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, meteorologist David Roth said.

    At the opposite end of the spectrum, record high temperatures were expected Wednesday along the Gulf Coast and into the Ohio Valley while the southern Plains to the mid-South braced for possible tornadoes Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

    In Southern California, two mountain highways opened and the California Highway Patrol began escorting residents back up to their homes. Anyone who ventures up from the Los Angeles area to play in the snow should take two weeks' worth of food and supplies in case they get stuck, Rowe said. More snow is expected in the coming weeks.

    Northwest of Lake Tahoe, on the California-Nevada border in the Sierra Nevada, an avalanche struck a three-story apartment building Tuesday evening, according to the local sheriff鈥檚 office. No injuries were reported.

    Yosemite National Park postponed its planned Thursday reopening indefinitely.

    The heavy snow was expected to end in California on Wednesday afternoon after an additional 1 to 2 feet falls (30 to 60 centimetres), according to the weather service. In Arizona, snow began falling Wednesday morning as the storm moved eastward and was poised to dump as much as 2 feet (60 centimetres) of snow in northern Arizona by Thursday morning.

    More than a foot of fresh snow fell in Flagstaff by Wednesday evening, adding to what鈥檚 already well above average for the winter season. Long stretches of major roadways, including Interstates 40 and 17, were closed, as were public schools in the mountain city and some government offices.

    Erin Irwin, a realtor in Flagstaff, used a shovel and snow blower to clear her driveway. This is the 12th snow day her three children 鈥 ages 11, 14, and 16 鈥 have had since January.

    鈥淵ou would think my older kids would love it. I think they鈥檙e all pretty much over it. They don鈥檛 even want to play outside anymore,鈥 Irwin said. 鈥淭he puppy is the only one who still loves the snow.鈥

    The Sierra snowpack provides about a third of California's water supply. Tuesday's water content of the snowpack 鈥 in a state grappling with years of drought 鈥 was 186 per cent of normal to date, according to the state Department of Water Resources鈥 online data.

    The next, larger weather system was expected to spread across much of the country Thursday, and areas such as the lower Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley could see heavy rain, thunderstorms and some flash flooding. The high temperatures could top 100 degrees (38 Celsius) across far south Texas, and windy, dry conditions would make for a critical risk of wildfire in parts of the Southwest for the next few days, according to the weather service.

    Recent storms across the country have delayed travel, shuttered schools and overwhelmed crews trying to dig out of the snow and repair downed power lines. More than 26,000 customers were without power Wednesday night in Michigan, which is still recovering from ice storms, and more than 100,000 customers were in the dark in California, according to PowerOutage.us.

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    Finley reported from Norfolk, Virginia, and Taxin reported from Orange County, California. Associated Press writers Terry Tang and Walter Berry in Arizona, and Trisha Ahmed in St. Paul, Minnesota, contributed to this report.

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