Heavy rains, snow hit Southern California

A California Highway Patrol officer was struck and killed early this morning on the eastbound 60 Freeway in Hacienda Heights. The officer was in the No. 4 lane laying down flares when a gray Honda, right, hit the center divider, crossed four lanes and struck the officer. The officer and his partner were on the scene of a previous accident involving a pickup truck, left. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Sept. 16, 2014 6:44 AM PT

CHP officers stand somberly during a news conference at which officials identified the slain officer as Joseph Sanders, 29, a Marine Corps veteran who had served in Iraq. Sanders is survived by his wife and three children, ages 7, 3 and 10 months. His wife is pregnant with their fourth child. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

A bundled-up traveler crosses a rain-slicked and deserted street at LAX. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Roland Dean and dog Roxy brave the flood waters outside their Sunset Beach home after the combination of high tide and heavy rain inundated the streets at Pacific Coast Highway and 12th Street. Officials said no homes or businesses were flooded. Several emergency agencies assisted in sandbagging and pumping water out of the low-lying areas. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Orange County Fire Authority firefighters clear flood waters in Sunset Beach after the combination of high tide and heavy rain inundated streets along Pacific Coast Highway. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Jake Westover throws a snowball while playing with friends and family after an overnight snowstorm blanketed the Frazier Park area with about 6 inches of snow. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Snow showers in the Tejon Pass area hamper driving. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A snowplow works to clear Frazier Mountain Park Road. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Walter Verginy uses a broom to sweep a 6-inch layer of snow off his car in Frazier Park. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Mud flows from charred hillsides onto San Antonio Road in Yorba Linda as a major storm soaks communities already hard hit by recent wildfires. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Tom and Ramali Watson walk their dogs along Sesnon Boulevard near where recent fires burned the steep hillsides above Granada Hills. The streets were in good shape as a rainstorm moved through Southern California. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

CHP officer Jeff Basham, left, asks driver Nicole Lehnhoff to turn around due to the closure of Highway 330 in Running Springs on Monday morning. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

The winter weather wreaked havoc on local roads. On Highway 330 in Running Springs, a car gets stuck amid blizzard conditions. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A jackknifed truck blocks lanes on Highway 330 on Monday morning. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Colin Park, of San Diego, works to free his car stuck in heavy snow on Highway 330 on Monday morning. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Manual Vincent is covered in snow as he waits for help after his pick-up truck skidded off Highway 330 in blizzard conditions on the road to Big Bear on Monday morning. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Drivers face treacherous conditions on Highway 330 on Monday morning. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Snow accumulates on a road sign Monday morning in Gorman. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A sign states the obvious on Interstate 5 this morning in the Tejon Pass. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Cattle wander through a snowy field in the Tejon Pass on Monday morning. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Rain blurs the lights of westbound traffic on Century Boulevard heading toward LAX . As much as an inch of rain had fallen in some areas by the time drivers got underway Monday morning. Total rainfall is expected to average up to 1.5 inches in coastal and valley areas and 1.5 to 3 inches in the foothills. The heaviest showers are expected to dump rain at a rate of half an inch per hour, accompanied by winds and cold temperatures. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Water rushes past sandbags near luxury homes in hills burned during October’s Sesnon fire in the Porter Ranch area. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

On Sunday, Yuki “Jim” Tomono throws sandbags into his pickup at Bryant Ranch Park to place on the slope of his Brush Canyon home in Yorba Linda in anticipation of possible mudslides. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A sign along Via Lomas de Yorba West reminds Box Canyon and Brush Canyon residents of potential mudslides in the event of rain in Yorba Linda, where recent wildfires have left the hillsides bare and vulnerable. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

With rain expected, residents of Brush Canyon in Yorba Linda attempt to ward off soil erosion and mudslides where recent wildfires have left the hillsides bare. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

In the Tea fire burn area, family and friends of a longtime Montecito resident help prepare the property for demolition and eventual rebuilding. They placed hundreds of sandbags and cleared burned groves of cottonwoods like those pictured. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Barricades and sandbag barriers are in place near Box Canyon residences, a mudslide-prone area in Yorba Linda where recent wildfires have left hillsides bare. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)