In case you missed it: Midwest snowstorm grounds thousands of flights; Flooding, mudslides add to woes of wildfire-ravaged California
Travelers heading home after Thanksgiving faced major delays and snowy roads in the Midwest over the weekend.
On one of the busiest travel days of the year according to AAA, a major storm wreaked havoc from Kansas to Michigan.
Airports were swamped with passengers as delays piled up and the storm raged. More than 1,000 flights were canceled at Chicago O'Hare International Airport between Sunday and Monday. Hundreds more were canceled at Midway International Airport.
Children walks to their school as snow falls, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, in Chicago. A wintry storm brought blizzard-like conditions to parts of the Midwest early Monday, grounding hundreds of flights and causing some road traffic chaos as commuters returned to work after the Thanksgiving weekend. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Delays then spread across the country.
Numerous power lines were taken down by the heavy snow resulting in nearly 200,000 outages in Illinois alone. Most of the outages were concentrated around Chicago.
Nearly a foot of snow fell in Rockford, Illinois, near the Wisconsin border, according to the National Weather Service.
In New York, more than 30 inches of snow fell in the western part of the state at midweek.
<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Neighbors are digging out in Perrysburg as the snow keeps falling. Highway Dept says 30+ inches from storm. 28.2 in from <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSBUFFALO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NWSBUFFALO</a> this am. <a href="https://twitter.com/WKBW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WKBW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/7FirstAlert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@7FirstAlert</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/cattaraugus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cattaraugus</a> <a href="https://t.co/5yDZH5Wsd1">pic.twitter.com/5yDZH5Wsd1</a></p>— Josh Bazan (@JoshBazan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshBazan/status/1067837740107075585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Dozens of schools were closed, and officials issued travel advisories.
A trapped deer on a frozen lake made headlines this week after a group of hunters rescued the trapped animal.
Jeffrey Sidle was hunting in Pike County in eastern Pennsylvania when he spotted the deer struggling to gain footing and decided to help the animal back to land.
The group used a boat on top of the ice, lassoed the deer and dragged him to safety.
Sidle, a photographer, captured the entire ordeal on video.
A group of hunters helped this buck that was stranded on Greeley Lake in Greeley, Pennsylvania. Joshua Davis, the man in the video, was able to slide out on a boat and get a rope around the deer and pull him to land. Once on land, the buck got to its feet and walked away.
Heavy rain and snow fell across parts of California this week, issuing evacuation orders for those near burn scar areas as mudslides posed a serious threat.
Major roads including parts of Highway 1, Interstate 80 and Interstate 5 were closed at times.
In Santa Cruz County, debris flows overtook roads and flooding in San Francisco and Daly City left some roads under 2 feet of water.
In addition to the pounding rain, strong winds in the Bay Area gusted up to 45 mph. Dozens of flights out of San Francisco area airports were delayed.
Power outages spread across 30 percent of Butte County in the Central Valley, which includes Paradise and the Camp Fire burn scar area.
The rain affected the southern half of the state as well.
Major debris flow and flooding forced Orange County officials to issue mandatory evacuation orders for those in the area of Trabuco Creek.
More than 700 people were injured as a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit western Iran near the Iraq border on Sunday.
While no one was killed in Iran, one person was killed in Iraq and another 40 were injured in the eastern part of the country.
Reports and posts on social media show the quake damaged buildings in various rural areas in SarPol-e zahab and Qasr-e-Shirin, causing walls of some homes to fall. Tremors could be felt as far away as Baghdad.
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