PHOTOS: Storms pound the Southland

A full rainbow appears to arch over 3rd Street in downtown Los Angeles.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A rainbow seems to plunge from the sky over La Fayette Road in the Lafayette Square neighborhood of Los Angeles.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Rain soaks a heavily damaged home on Manistee Drive near Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Trucks head south on Interstate 15 in Hesperia.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Kiesha Harris of Victorville gets pelted after stopping at a turnout off Interstate 15 in Hesperia to experience the snowfall.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

A rainbow appears over Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday evening.  (Scott Harrison / Los Angeles Times)

A Segway rider zips along Long Beach Boulevard. On-and-off showers soaked the coastal city Tuesday afternoon.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Pedestrians add a little color to a dreary, wet afternoon on Long Beach Boulevard.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Workers move wheelbarrows filled with mud as residents of neighborhoods in the burn areas of La Cañada Flintridge prepare for more rains and the possibility of flooding and mudslides. Foothill areas north of Los Angeles are under a flash flood watch as another winter storm approaches, prompting mandatory evacuations of hundreds of homes.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Furniture is partially immersed in water and mud in the yard of a house on Manistee Drive in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Kristin McLaughlin, 21, takes a break from securing her family’s home and belongings in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Before the start of the latest storm, workmen clear a channel for mud to flow between homes on Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Ted Dearman follows a path to the mud-spattered front doors of his home on Ocean View Boulevard.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Damaris Laguna salvages china from a cabinet that was upended when several feet of mud and debris inundated her home.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Olivia Brown hugs her neighbor Rick Frazier, whose house was one of 43 red-tagged by building inspectors as being unsafe for entry.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Rob Sweeney sweeps mud out of a home on Manistee Drive in La Cañada Flintridge, one of the streets hardest hit by Saturday’s early morning mudslides.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Danny Vartanian retrieved a child’s car seat from Pat Anderson’s car, which was swept down the embankment to a neighbor’s house. Anderson, left, was on the second floor of her home when mud and debris surged through her house.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Katherine Markgraf is shocked to see her mother’s car swept down to the neighbor’s house. The Laguna family, whose home is at right, narrowly escaped, mud splashing their backs as they ran to their backyard and hid behind a tree while debris rushed around them.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Department of Public Works inspectors Scott Dillon, left, and Jim Gustin replace a red tag with a yellow tag, permitting the owners of this home to enter and retrieve belongings.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Mud rises to counter-level in Damaris Laguna’s kitchen. Her husband heard the roaring sound of the debris flow early Saturday morning and quickly pulled the family out.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Chad Cummins, right, consoles his friend Brian Laguna upon hearing that his Golden Retreiver puppy, Lindy, was killed by the mudslide.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Officials were tagging homes on Sunday, such as this one in La Cañada Flintridge, that were deemed unsafe for entry or habitation after Saturday’s mudflows.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tours the La Cañada Flintridge neighborhood along Ocean View Drive where at least seven homes were destroyed by a deluge of water, mud and debris.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Water district crews and fire department officials tagged homes that were deemed unsafe for entry or habitation.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Karineh Mangassarian stands in front of her mud-encased home in La Cañada Flintridge. She says that the house is filled with standing water and that mud has blocked the front entrance.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Mangassarian checks on her backyard.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Mud roars down a street in La Cañada Flintridge, where at least 41 hillside houses have been damaged or destroyed. Full story at L.A. Now  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A debris basin is completely filled in La Cañada Flintridge. Crews were scrambling Saturday afternoon to clear out the basins before more rain arrived.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A river of mud flows through La Cañada Flintridge.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cars plow through deep water on Tujunga Avenue in Sunland.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A mailbox on Manistee Drive in La Cañada Flintridge is nearly buried in mud. A flash flood sent water cascading down Manistee and Ocean View Boulevard, causing extensive damage to several homes.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A gas company worker digs in front of a flattened home on Manistee Drive, where the flash flood caused a gas leak.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A photograph floats in a pool of mud. Evacuation orders remain in place for about 540 homes in parts of La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta and Acton until at least 8 p.m., when officials will reevaluate the threats.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles County firefighters dig a car out of the mud along Ocean View Boulevard.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Lyn Slotky prepares to evacuate her Ocean View Boulevard home.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Kelly Schroeder salvages items from her car, which was swept down Ocean View Boulevard. Another of the family’s cars was stuck in the mud.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Neighbors PJ Pesce, background, Jessica Paquette, center, and Erin Wee try to cross a 15-foot-high mudslide that buried Castair Drive. Pesce’s guest home was draped with a “condemned” sign after being destroyed by water and mud in the early hours of Saturday’s storm.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

PJ Pesce, with his dog Lefty, surveys the mud and rain damage to his guest house. Elijah Behar, who was in the guest house when the mudslides began, said “I heard the rain all of a sudden get really loud. ... Then the water and mud started to come through the light fixtures, and we had to get out.”  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

PJ Pesce surveys the mud and rain damage to his guest house with his dog on Castair Drive after heavy rains early Saturday.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

A worker places cones around a water-damaged segment of Stonyvale Road in Angeles National Forest, where the shoulder gave way in Saturday’s rains.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Paul Funk, road maintenance superintendent for the L.A. County Department of Public Works, walks past a vehicle stuck in the mud on Big Tujunga Canyon Road.  (Christina House / For The Times)

A front loader moves mud to the side of Big Tujunga Canyon Road as a house looms in the hills above.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Dean Kirchner finds time for a laugh near his home off of Big Tujunga Canyon Road, where a water passage is clogged with thick mud and debris.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Matt Brown helps clean muddy water from the floor of his friends’ clothing store, Posers, on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Donna McLaughlin takes a break from mopping up the mud that damaged her home on Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Home damage caused by mudslides on Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

K-rails pushed by the force of mudslides litter Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge. About 25 vehicles were damaged when they were struck by the dislodged K-rails.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Cars were damaged by mudslides on Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Homes were damaged by a mudslide on Manistee Drive.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Heather McLaughlin, 23, right, gets a helping hand from 16-year-old neighbor Zosha Wiktor in mopping up the mud that damaged her home on Ocean ViewBoulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

K-Rails and debris on Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Neal Sobol checks out debris that was pushed under his Toyota Camry in the 5300 block of Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Terri Dearman, 44, evacuates her damaged home in the 5700 block of Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Smashed vehicles are pushed together on Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Houses damaged by mudslides on Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Rocks and small boulders cover parts of Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

K-Rails, cars and debris ended up on Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Justin Jeffcoat, 29, looks at his 1996 Toyota 4Runner, which was pushed a block from his home in the 5400 block of Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

One of many homes damaged by mudslides on Manistee Drive.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles County sheriff’s Det. Brian Tibbett removes rocks littering Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Mud and damaged vehicles litter Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Evacuations were ordered after mudslides damaged several homes on Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A mailbox and K-rail were pushed by the mudslide onto Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Firefighters assist residents on the corner of Manistee Drive and Ocean View Boulevard.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)