High-storm surf pounds the beach in front of an oil rig at Seal Beach, Calif., Wednesday , Jan 20, 2010, as the region prepares for the third in a series of storms to hit the California coastline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
- High-storm surf pounds the beach in front of an oil rig at Seal Beach, Calif., Wednesday , Jan 20, 2010, as the region prepares for the third in a series of storms to hit the California coastline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
- Seated at center right, back to front, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky join other officials in a briefing from local, state and federal officials on the situation in California. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa talks with reporters as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and other public officials received a briefing from local, state and federal officials on the situation in California following a series of storms that have dropped large amounts of rain, hail, snow, sometimes accompanied by near gale-force winds and tornadoes, in Los Angeles Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
- Public Works Department workers continue to clear the road as residents leave an area threatened by mudslides beneath the burn area of the 2009 Station wildfire, in Blanchard Canyon in the Tujunga area of Los Angeles Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Several inches of rain have fallen and more rain is predicted as a series of storms move through California. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
- Jerry Bridges paddles an inflatable kayak down a flooded section of Bennett Aveue in Long Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The second in a series of powerful storms roared into Southern California, bringing heavy rains and winds that smashed windows, submerged cars and flipped an SUV along a stretch of coastline. (AP Photo/Scott Smeltzer)
- The debris basin at the foot of Blanchard Canyon is mostly filled as the sun breaks through during a brief respite from waves of rain that continued to fall in the Tujunga area of Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Several inches of rain have fallen and more rain is predicted as a series of storms move through California. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
- A lone plane takes off, while these Southwest Airlines planes were grounded as the airline canceled all flights due to high winds and storms at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
- Southwest Airlines customer service agent Marcie Whalen, left, helps passenger Doug Puchalla, of Denver, rebook a flight tomorrow as the airline canceled all flights due to high winds and storms at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
- An airline passenger walks past a Southwest Airlines departures monitor showing all flights on the airline canceled due to high winds and storms at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
- Water from a storm runs unto highway 17 in Los Gatos, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Storms continue to pound California Tuesday, causing evacuations, flooding, school and road closures. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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