The sun briefly breaks through thick storm clouds over Los Angeles on Wednesday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Against a passing storm, rescue boat Capt. Kurt Frederick of the Los Angeles County Lifeguards finishes a workout along a breakwater at the King Harbor Yacht Club in Redondo Beach. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A woman pauses on a rainy street to survey the damage to a fire-ravaged neighborhood in Sylmar. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Santa Barbara resident Randy Wade carries sandbags to drainage culverts to keep them clear of mud and silt. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Wade was volunteering to drive along the road with a shovel and sandbags. “I’m just a do-gooder,” he said. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
John Hain of San Diego holds a dog on his shoulder as he talks with a sheriff’s deputy after an accident on the rainy Pacific Coast Highway. Hain’s car hydroplaned and flipped over, closing the highway down both directions just South of Coral Canyon in Malibu. A female passenger sustained minor injuries. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
A storm cell partially obscures the sun as it moves over a scorched hillside in Yorba Linda. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
On a rainy morning in Redondo Beach, Tree Curtis, left, and Jan Pokk walk past a mural depicting an underwater scene. The mural is on a building that houses The SEA Lab, which provides marine science and environmental education programs. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Crews from Hill Crane and Fry Environment use two cranes to lift tons of trash from the mouth of the Los Angeles river in Long Beach where it was trapped by booms after the rainstorm on Wednesday. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Heavy fog shrouds Lone Pine Road in Wrightwood. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
