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The backyard of a damaged home shows its swimming pool, which slid about 30 feet down the hillside, Feb. 22, 2005, in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles.
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The rain-swollen Santa Clara River is rapidly eroding the land the Santa Paula (Calif.) Airport sits on, Feb. 22, 2005. A day earlier, the bank ran in a straight line from the bottom middle to the trees on the top right.
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A large rock slide forced the closure of Malibu Canyon Road as rains continue Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005, in the Malibu Canyon section of Los Angeles.
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A funnel cloud is seen over the Pacific Ocean off Venice Beach in Los Angeles, Feb. 22, 2005.
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A home that slid off of its foundation onto a hillside is seen Feb. 22, 2005, in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles.
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A rainbow makes a brief appearance over Malibu Creek State Park as rains continue, Feb. 22, 2005, in the Malibu Canyon section of Los Angeles.
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Conner Kinney, 6, stomps through puddles of standing water, Feb. 21, 2005, in Dixon, Calif, as a thunderstorm drenches Vacaville in the background.
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A delivery truck attempts to cross flood waters covering the Hollywood Freeway after a severe thunderstorm closed the road in both directions, Feb. 21, 2005, in Los Angeles.
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A woman is rescued from a house, Feb. 21, 2005, after being trapped by a mudslide, in Los Angeles.
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A deep sinkhole is seen along Tujunga Avenue, Feb. 21, 2005, in Sun Valley, Calif. A civil engineer who was assessing the sinkhole died after he was swept into the 30-foot pit late Sunday.
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A funnel cloud begins to form in Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 21, 2005. Storms continue to hit parts of California causing flooding, tornados, mudslides and power outages in parts of the state.
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A funnel cloud passes over Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 21, 2005. Storms continue to hit parts of California causing flooding, mudslides and power outages in parts of the state.
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San Bernardino County firefighter Mike Frieling attempts to dig a channel to divert rainwater back into a wash to protect a home in Hesperia, Calif., Feb. 21 2005. Floodwaters made it into the home and the homeowners evacuated.
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A surfer takes advantage of a break in the rain to ride some good surf in Morro Bay , Calif., Feb. 21, 2005.
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Mark Pashky jumps across the rut in Middleton Road which his car struck, Feb. 21 2005, during a rainstorm near Phelan, Calif. Pashky gave up trying to dig the car out himself, and called a friend with a four-wheel-drive truck.
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Firefighter Dave Wallander holds a cat he brought out of a house that was damaged during a mud slide in Hacienda Heights, Calif., Feb. 21, 2005. Three people were in the home at the time. One was able to get out through the back of the house and the other two had to be rescued by firefighters and search-and-rescue teams.
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The intersection of Zelzah and Surfside is covered by a mud flow in La Conchita, Calif., Feb. 21, 2005. A number of homes in the neighborhood have been red and yellow-tagged and residents were under a voluntary evacuation order by authorities.
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Rick Dela Torre, center, looks over at the exposed roots of a tree, Feb 21, 2005, that fell onto his house in Long Beach, Calif., earlier that morning as the rain came down. Long Beach city workers Staban Robles, left in bucket, and Jorge Hernandez, right, cut up and clear away the tree. Unrelenting rain saturated southern California in a series of storms that was blamed for three deaths, wide-ranging power outages and stalled commuter rail service.
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Workers surround a sinkhole in Sun Valley, Calif., Feb 20, 2005, as southern California was soaked by the latest in a series of storms. A repair worker was killed late Sunday falling into the 30-foot-deep sinkhole, said Fire Department spokesman Melissa Kelley. The body wasn't recovered until Monday morning because of downed power lines near the chasm, she said.
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A vehicle swerves to avoid a mud and rockslide on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Feb. 19, 2005, in Malibu, Calif. A patchwork of powerful storms brought thunderstorms and nickel-size hail to southern California, flooding roads and several homes, knocking out power to thousands of customers and raising the threat of mudslides.
