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Marilyn Lane tries to shut a door as a wave rushes into her Solimar Beach home during a January 1998 storm.
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El Nino of 1997-98

El Niño 1997-98

Marilyn Lane tries to shut a door as a wave rushes into her Solimar Beach home during a January 1998 storm.

  (Alan Hagman / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

Snow forms a backdrop to the Hollywood sign after an El Niño storm in 1998.

  (Ken Lubas / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

Waves crash into homes along Broad Beach in Malibu .

  (Ken Lubas / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

The Ventura County Fairgrounds is flooded after an El Niño storm.

  (Carlos Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

Wood lines San Buenaventura State Beach as a crew cleans up the debris left behind by the storms that accompaned El Niño earlier in this year.

  (Carlos Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

A surfer throws up his arms after catching a double-overhead wave at Cloudbreak, south of the Seal Beach Pier.

  (Al Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

The Ventura River overflowed after heavy rains in 1998, closing the 101 Freeway for several hours.

  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

An apartment building in Ventura collapsed after heavy rains in 1998.

  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

Andy Harvey, a Ventura County sheriff’s search and rescue team member, swims to a partially submerged vehicle that washed down the Ventura River during in 1998. The vehicle turned out to be unoccupied.

  (Steve Osman / Los Angeles Times)

El Niño 1997-98

Mudslides after heavy rain destroyed property in Laguna Canyon in 1998.

  (Alexander Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)

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El Nino of 1997-98

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