Jaden Shabry, 15, of Boulder Creek, plays in the snow after a snowstorm that hit the West Coast on Friday, February 24, 2023. The flurries came from an intense, cold winter storm that forced the closure of Highway 17, leading to the Santa Cruz Mountains. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Falling snow and trees and flooding closed major roads in the Santa Cruz Mountains early Friday as the Bay Area bore through a rare winter storm that dumped several inches of snow at elevations below 1,000 feet across Northern California.
According to a report by this news organization, “A winter storm warning remained