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In Photos: California Blizzard

The most powerful Pacific storm of the season started barreling into the Sierra Nevada on Thursday, packing multiple feet of snow and dangerous winds that forecasters say will crea🧸te blizzard co🌼nditions likely to close major highways and trigger power outages into the weekend.

In Photos: California Blizzard
California Blizzard | Photo: Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via 🍨AP

Lydia Samaniego walks to her house as snow falls in El Dꩲorado County, California. She said she was leaving for San Francisco with friends to escape the forecast blizzard.

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California Blizzard | Photo: AP/Andy Barron

🐓A snowboarder makes his way out of the North Star California Resort after a day of snowboarding in Truckee, California.

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California Blizzard | Photo: AP/Andy Barron

Skiers hurry a🐻long The Village at Northstar California Resort as snow falls in Truckee, California.

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California Blizzard | Photo: AP/Andy Barron

A snow flurry passꦉes as skiers pack up their skis after a day𝄹 of skiing North Star California Resort Truckee, California.

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California Blizzard | Photo: AP/Andy Barron

Snow falls as skiers walk along The Village at Northstar Resort on t🍌heir way to the lifts in T🐲ruckee, California.

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California Blizzard | 𒅌Photo: Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP

Snow falls ♑on homes on Sierra Pines Road in El Dorad♈o County, California as a blizzard is expected to add to snow in the area.

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California Blizzard | Photo: AP/Andy Barron

Mangal Singh parks his truck off the I-80💧 to puts chains on his truck wheels in preparation for the snow storm over the Sierra Nevada in Truckee, California. A Pacific storm packing powerful winds and heavy snow is shaping up to be the strongest of the season, forecasters say.

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California Blizzard | Photo: Hector Amezcua/The 🥂Sacramento Bee via AP

Hydrometeorologist Angelique Fabbiani-Leon, left, and water resources engineers Anthony Burdock and Andy Reising take measurements for the California Department of Water Resou𒅌rces as🌌 snow falls during a snow survey at Phillips Station, California.

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