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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano in Lebec, California

This winding LA highway is notoriously treacherous. Extreme weather is making it worse

A snowy highway with car traffic
Traffic on the Interstate 5 drives through a snowy landscape in Lebec, California. Photograph: Myung J Chun/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Wildfires. Snowstorms. Falling boulders. DC Williams has long given up on predicting what the day will bring on Interstate 5 near Tejon Pass, an eight-lane stretch of highway that winds through the steep mountains north of Los Angeles.

Williams has been an officer with the California Highway Patrol and worked in this area for 11 years. On a chilly day this spring, he wore a thick black jacket even as he sat inside his Ford Explorer on a bridge overlooking the highway.

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