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Residents Fret Over Deaths in Southern California Mountains [1]
['Shawn Hubler', 'Jill Cowan', 'More About Shawn Hubler', 'More About Jill Cowan']
Date: 2023-03-09
The power had been out for a week with snow to the rafters in Crestline when the neighbors found 93-year-old Elinor “Dolly” Avenatti bundled up in a chair in front of her fireplace, which had gone cold. Barbie Hughes, 39, the clerk at the local hardware store, was hit by a vehicle on a dark, snow-covered road just after midnight near Big Bear Lake; she died at the hospital.
Alden Park Thayer, 85, an Air Force veteran, a man of faith and a retired professional baker, died at his Lake Arrowhead home as the snow drifts outside piled up to 10 feet, then 14 feet. His daughter, Lisa Thayer, had sat by his side singing “How Great Thou Art.”
The roads were impassable, and the emergency officials said it would be a week until they could retrieve his body, and so, Ms. Thayer said, for the next five days it lay on a mattress with a pillow and blanket in the garage.
As the mountain communities of Southern California braced for an incoming atmospheric river, local authorities, stunned survivors and close-knit neighbors began to sort out the toll from a staggering, two-week onslaught of snow.
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[1] Url:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/us/san-bernardino-snow-deaths.html?timespastHighlight=san,bernardino,blizzard
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