The end of a record-breaking holiday travel stretch is being met with the first major winter storm of the year. Snow, ice and frigid temperatures wreaked havoc on roads across the Midwest over the weekend. The storm also canceled 1,800 flights, mostly to and from the Midwest.
In the tiny town just north of Bakersfield, sits Shafter, which residents say will be torn apart by California Governor Gavin Newsom’s high speed rail dream.
The town has a population of just over 22...