Clouds hover over buildings in downtown L.A. as students leave Roybal Learning Center complex. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Surfboards are attached to a car at San Onofre State Beach under the cover of dark clouds. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A group ponders the approaching storm at San Onofre State Beach. The storm is expected to drop an inch of rain along the coast. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Ryan Riffe, 15, left, and friend Biff Cooper, 21, head into the surf at San Onofre State Beach. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Steve and Gloria Nestlerode of Sierra Madre put up a wooden fence to protect their property from mudslides. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A flower blooms on a rainy morning in Sierra Madre where some neighborhoods are preparing for possible mudslides from expected heavy rains. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
