A couple of skiiers ride the Aggasiz chairlift at the Arizona Snowbowl north of Flagstaff, Ariz., during a snow storm, Jan. 9, 2005.
Eric Petersen clears the sidewalk in front of his house in northwest Reno, Nev., Jan. 9, 2005, after the area received another two feet of snow from the most recent storm.
Dan Tirre, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., uses a snowblower to make a path down the street in front of his home before heading into work, Jan. 9, 2005. The Tahoe area has seen three feet of snow at lake level and more than 5 feet in the upper elevations from the recent storms.
A car is nearly submerged in water on a flooded street in Sausalito, Calif., Jan. 9, 2005.
Members of the Ventura County Swift Water Rescue team help a woman from her truck about a quarter mile from the 33 Highway on Canada Larga Road Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005, in Ventura, Calif., where Canada Larga Creek overflowed its banks.
Malibu Tow operator Chris Metzler takes cover from storm-driven surf while trying to hook a tow line to a vehicle on Pacific Coast Highway, one mile north of Topanga Canyon, after two people were killed when the SUV veered off the road and tumbled over 50-foot cliff into Pacific Ocean, Jan. 9, 2005, in Malibu, Calif.
Firefighter Edward Johnson carries Madison Ramirez, 4, whose family was evacuated from The Polynesian Deluxe Mobile House Park in Santa Clarita, Calif., due to flooding Sunday morning, Jan. 9, 2005.
A woman from Ojai, Calif., is rescued by Ventura County Fire Dept. Captain Kerry Ellison, left, after she was trapped on top of her pickup truck, right, after attempting to traverse Camino Cielo, a road that runs next to swollen Matilija Creek off Highway 33 north of Ojai, on Jan. 9, 2005, after heavy rains.
Ron Lykins, of Los Gatos, Calif., pauses to photograph his car after digging it out at Northstar resort near Truckee, Calif., Jan. 9, 2005, as large, consecutive snowstorms hit the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Neil and Sandy Brewer, vacationing from Wellington, New Zealand, watch storm clouds below a snow-covered Mather Point at the canyon's South Rim, near Tusayan, Ariz., Jan. 8, 2005.
Frances Boettcher, left, looks at the rising water from her home in King Salmon, Calif., Jan. 8, 2005. A record high tide, continuing rain and offshore winds forced several families to leave their homes.
Logan Colwell, 7, of Phoenix, carries his sled back to the top of a run at the crowded east practice fields on the Northern Arizona University campus in Flagstaff, Ariz., Jan. 8, 2005. Both locals and out-of-towners turned out in force to take advantage of the continuing snowfall.
Neighbors talk at the King Salmon community along Humboldt Bay south of Eureka, Calif., Jan. 8 2005.
Ice covers a street sign in Burns, Kan., Jan. 8, 2005, after a massive stretch of Kansas and Missouri was hit by a storm that dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow, glazing nearly everything with ice.
A longhorn cow forages in a pasture covered in ice, Jan. 8, 2005, just south of Burns, Kan.
A stranded motorist is pulled free by a California Highway Patrol vehicle on Highway 18 near Big Bear, Calif., Jan. 8, 2005. As many as 200 vehicles got stuck in deep snow in the San Bernardino Mountains as the latest in a series of storms struck California. The storms quickly moved eastward, closing all three major highways over the Sierra Nevada.
Traffic moves along Virginia Street in downtown Reno during a snow storm, Jan. 8, 2005.
Nolan Shine, 7, digs a snow tunnel in the front yard of his home in Carson City, Nev., during a break in the snowstorm, Jan. 8, 2005.
Four-year-old Kellen Nickels helps shovel out his southwest Reno, Nev., home, Jan. 8, 2005. His neighborhood received a foot and a half of new snow on top of the three feet received a week ago.
An unidentified man on a snowplow sprays a truck along Carson Street in Carson City, Nev., during a snowstorm, Jan. 8, 2005.