Photos: Incoming storm

A broken stairway clings to a cliff that collapsed onto the beach at 1500 Neptune Ave. in Encinitas, Calif. The homeowner, Barbara Lynch, was distraught over the damage but said, “If it all goes tomorrow, at least I’ve enjoyed my 30 years here.”
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Construction crews at Sycamore Canyon on Pacific Coast Highway install protective fencing after the recent heavy rain caused rocks to fall and mudslides.
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Steve Topjian walks along the trunk of a 90-foot pine tree that fell in the frontyard of his neighbors’ home on Hatteras Street in Van Nuys. An estimated 500 homes and businesses were without electricity Tuesday morning because the tree took down some power lines, according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Three cars and a wrought iron fence were slightly damaged in the incident. “I thought it was an earthquake,” said Beverly Greenberg, whose tree fell across her yard and into the neighbors’.
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Bee handler Moshe Cohen removes part of a beehive from a 90-foot pine tree that fell in the frontyard of a home on Hatteras Street in Van Nuys. The homeowner whose tree fell hired the bee handler to remove the hive.
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A worker scrambles to complete repairs to the boardwalk at Laguna Beach’s Main Beach, damaged by last week’s storm, before the arrival of another storm.
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A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection prison crew marches to another assignment in Highland after sandbagging and protecting a home from a storm expected to hit the area late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
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Armed with shovels, Esther Amparan wades through heavy mud toward her home on Church Street in Highland, which was hit hard by last week’s storms.
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