LOS ANGELES — For days, Michael Bowen could see the snow piling up outside his home.
Having grown up in Massachusetts, he thought he could handle a California winter storm. Most of his neighbors in Crestline told him that snowfall in the San Bernardino Mountains wouldn’t get over a few feet.
Then Bowen began to hear his roof creak under the stress of roughly 6 feet of snow piled on top of his home. He started to see large trees, weighed down by several days’ worth of snow and rain, bend to the ground.
