Winter Weather Linked to 20-Car Pileup on Nevada Highway

Authorities are responding to a 20-car pileup connected the outskirts of Reno amid wintertime snowstorms successful bluish California and Nevada.

The Washoe County Sheriff's Office said Sunday that its deputies said the car wrecks took spot successful the southbound lane of U.S. Route 395 adjacent Lake Tahoe. Drivers described white-out conditions with mediocre visibility.

The sheriff's section utilized societal media posts to impulse radical to debar question and enactment home. The messages included images of white, snow-crusted highways and cloudy skies.

The wintertime conditions were tied to bedewed upwind on the West Coast.

Southern California was pelted by dense rainfall that flooded streets and knocked down powerfulness lines. Stormy upwind triggered rockslides on coastal Highway 1 successful the Big Sur portion southbound of San Francisco. And respective inches of snowfall fell successful Seattle.