Coldwater Canyon Avenue is littered with broken pieces of pavement after a water main break overnight flooded the Studio City neighborhood and created a large sinkhole under the street, which then collapsed. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Gas company workers step over chunks of broken asphalt looking for gas lines under Coldwater Canyon Avenue. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Neighborhood resident Edna Lee surveys the scene. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A gas company worker passes a home that had been barricaded with sandbags to protect it from floodwaters. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A sinkhole created by rushing water unleashed by a water main break developed under Coldwater Canyon Avenue in Studio City, and then collapsed. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power workers are reflected in a pool that filled a sinkhole created when a water main broke under Coldwater Canyon Avenue in Studio City. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Cars carried away by the flood that temporarily struck Studio City are smashed against each other off Valleyhearty Drive. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD Officer Robert Berry hops over cars relocated by flooding in Studio City. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Wayne Schutez of the Los Angeles Fire Department surveys a carport knocked down the rushing water. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
