Surfers catch waves with mostly clear skies with temperatures in the upper 60s Fahrenheit in Manhattan Beach, Calif. A battering winter storm has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the United States. The storm was nearly unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico. About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said. (AP Photo/John Antczak)