Los Angeles — Snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains behind downtown L.A., viewed from Baldwin Hills, as things dry out from a week of rain Dec. 24, 2010.

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Carter Pike, shown in black shirt at right, and brother, Dylan Pike, right, watch as a crane pulls Carter's 2008 Dodge Charger from the creek near Laguna Canyon Road in Laguna Beach.

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Huntington Beach — Gregg Hass, 10, plays with a ball found while beachcombing amid the huge pile of debris washed down local rivers and pushed onto Huntington Beach by the tides.

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Highland — Daniel Sanchez, 24, looks at his 2007 Toyota Camry buried in mud on Tyler Street.

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Highland — Leslie Constante, 29, weeps in front of her home on Tyler Street on Thursday after it was red-tagged due to flood damage.

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Highland — Ibeth Garcia, right, and her brother Cesar salvage belongings from their home Thursday.

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Highland — The effects of flooding and mud flows can be seen on Church Street.

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Laguna Beach — Workers with Pacific Cleaning Services sweep mud off the sidewalks Thursday along Ocean Avenue.

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A rainbow seems to emanate from downtown as a storm cell passes through the city in the late afternoon Wednesday.

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A rainbow appears over Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday afternoon.

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Los Angeles — Caryle Fox goes home for the day as a storm passes through. The giant chair sits in the middle of the parking lot as an icon for the L.A. Mart, south of downtown.

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The skyscrapers downtown appear amid the clouds in this view from Mulholland Highway.

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Highland — A home is inundated with mud.

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Los Angeles — Georgene Stepanic, right, and friend Bob Reid are dressed to cope with the elements as they enjoy their Sunday morning coffee al fresco at the Cow's End Cafe in Venice.

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Los Angeles — A tree was uprooted Sunday in the Mar Vista neighborhood on Los Angeles' Westside.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Katie Falkenberg / For The Times

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Oxnard — Fallen rocks along several miles of Pacific Coast Highway on Monday prompted officials to close the road from 1.1 miles north of the Los Angeles-Ventura county line to 4.4 miles south of Oxnard.

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Laguna Beach — Orange County urban search and rescue team members check out a Porsche trapped amid surging water on Wednesday.

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Laguna Beach — A friend carries Kirsten Cook from her mud-filled house on Wednesday.

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San Diego — The Sorrento Valley rail station parking lot in San Diego was flooded after a night of heavy rain.

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San Diego — Clyde Jennings' lumber business wasn't quite as advertised after flood waters filled it with 3 to 4 feet of water on Sorrento Valley Road north of San Diego.

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Silverado Canyon — Residents try to free a van that was pushed onto the banks of a creek by flowing mud and water in Silverado Canyon.

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Silverado Canyon — A resident carries rocks to stop mud flow that covered the street up to a stop sign in a neighborhood above Silverado Canyon Road.

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Silverado Canyon — Julia Tester clears the bridge over a raging creek at Kitterman Drive in Silverado Canyon.

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Laguna Beach — Scott Sporleder of Laguna Beach drinks coffee in flip flops and board shorts while wading in mud along Coast Highway in downtown Laguna Beach.

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Laguna Beach — Portions of Main Beach in downtown Laguna Beach are washed away by the latest storm.

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Laguna Beach — Mud and flooded streets greeted residents in downtown Laguna Beach on Wednesday morning after the latest in a series of storms pounded the area.

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Laguna Beach, Calif. — A small crayfish finds itself on a muddy sidewalk along Pacific Coast Highway in downtown Laguna Beach after a night of stormy weather and heavy rain.

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Oceanside — Storm-driven waves leap over the riprap barrier along Strand Way in Oceanside, where a couple take a morning walk during a lull in rainstorms that have pounded the Southland for days.

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Oceanside — It was high tide and choppy on Highway 78 in Oceanside where Buena Vista Creek overflowed and flooded the El Camino Real on-ramp. Eastbound traffic eases through floodwater just after California Highway Patrol officers reopened the highway.

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Laguna Beach — The area where Coast Highway and Broadway meet in downtown Laguna Beach was washed away by the latest storm Wednesday morning.

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La Cañada Flintridge — Montrose Search and Rescue Reserve Sheriff's Deputy John Camphouse prepares waiver forms for residents who are choosing to stay after he tells them of a mandatory evacuation for the La Cañada Flintridge neighborhood along Ocean View Boulevard.

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Huntington Beach — A handful of people braved the rains and wind that have inundated Southern California by walking onto the Huntington Beach Pier to get a look at the storm as it continued to move onshore Tuesday night.

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Long Beach — Long Beach residents Eveleyn Chen and Mahdi Chebbi, both 15, splash around a flooded portion of Country Club Drive near Cerritos Park on Tuesday.

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Wrightwood — A home on Mockingbird Road in Wrightwood suffered extensive mud and water damage during a flash flood.

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Lytle Creek — A driver in a Jeep crosses floodwaters on a washed-out section of Lytle Creek Road in San Bernardino County.

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Lytle Creek — Heavy rains have washed out parts of Lytle Creek Road. Other parts of the road are flooded and barely passable.

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Los Angeles — A mural on South Van Ness Avenue in Los Angeles is in keeping with the stormy-weather theme.

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Wrightwood — A truck is stuck on Wrightwood's Desert Front Road amid debris and fast-moving water from a creek.

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Los Angeles — Homeowner Adam Giagni waits for a tree-service company Tuesday morning to remove a eucalyptus that fell on his house Monday night, damaging the home he has owned for less than a year.

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Trabuco Canyon — Two of the four men rescued by the Orange County Fire Authority are evaluated by paramedics in an ambulance at the rescue command post in Trabuco Canyon after spending a cold, rainy night stranded by floodwaters in Holy Jim Canyon. A fire authority rescue helicopter lifted the men from one side of the creek and lowered them to safety.

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Wrightwood — Scott Howard and his daughter Shelby team up to remove the snow from a neighbor's driveway and car on Goldhill Drive.

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La Cañada Flintridge — A TV crew reports on the storms amid driving rain on Ocean View Boulevard near the burn area.

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Manhattan Beach — Brett McCalla, 6, left, and his sister Josie, 4, join their friend Nicolas McAree, 8, for a little frolicking in flooded Polliwog Park.

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Manhanttan Beach — Max McCalla, 9, slips while playing at flooded Polliwog Park.

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Long Beach — Workers from Vessel Assist/Boat U.S. attempt to raise a boat that sank due to the rains in Long Beach.

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