A bike rider shields his face from the snow in Newark, N.J., Friday, Dec. 19, 2008. A winter storm moved into northern New Jersey on Friday.
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Flights resumed in Las Vegas today after the famous strip was covered and palm trees sagged with more than 3 inches of snow. It was the biggest December snowfall ever in Las Vegas, and the largest in any month in nearly 30 years.
According to the AP, the storm Wednesday and early Thursday also dumped snow or rain and disrupted travel in other areas of Nevada, parts of northern Arizona and much of southern California.
"It looks like Whoville -- all snowy, but with less joy and more extreme misery," Calen Weiss, 19, told the AP. Weiss was stuck Wednesday when snow in the Cajon Pass east of Los Angeles disrupted travel on Interstate 15.
Spokane, Wash., also saw its snowfall record shattered when the storm dropped 17 inches, blasting the previous 24-hour snowfall record of 13 inches, set in 1950, according to the AP.
Still reeling from the latest storm, the Pacific Northwest is already being pounded by another wintry mix, which dropped temperatures in Seattle 20 degrees below normal.
On the heels of this storm, another system will move across the country in the next 48 hours and another will take the same track, hitting the East Coast by Christmas.
ABC News' Lisa Stark and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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