Snowstorm

OGDEN -- A snowstorm that will last into today hit the Top of Utah on Tuesday evening.

ROY — Utah Highway Patrol troopers pulled a driver to safety this morning after his car slid off Interstate 15, down an embankment, through a fence and in to a frozen canal near 5900 South outside of Roy.

The storms of the past week have lifted some of Idaho's snowpacks from well below average to within a storm or two of normal.

While some braved the fender bender-plagued streets to get home early from work or school Wednesday, Marcus Swearingen went sledding.

"It's not often you get 8-9 inches in a day, especially in Lewiston," said the Lewiston, Idaho man, joined by dozens of others at the makeshift sledding hill on Bryden Canyon Golf Course.

Many area schools that didn't opt for snow days had closed by Wednesday afternoon, prompting pickup trucks piled with snow hounds to fill the snow-covered fairways.

"It's getting better and better the more it gets packed down," Swearingen sa

SEATTLE -- A winter storm blasted the Pacific Northwest Wednesday, dumping near-record snow in some areas, hammering parts of Oregon with winds as high as 110 mph and bringing much of the region to a standstill.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The worst winter anyone can remember in Alaska has piled snow so high people can't see out the windows, kept a tanker in ice-choked waters from delivering fuel on time and turned snow-packed roofs into sled runs.

While most of the nation has gone without much seasonal snow, the state already known for winter is buried in weather that has dumped more than twice as much snow as usual on its largest city, brought out the National Guard and put a run on snow shovels.

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Russell LeFevre learned how to birth a baby in nursing school using clamps, blankets, a suction bulb that clears a baby's mouth of mucus and other medical supplies.