Photos: Southern California storm

A car goes through flooded Indiana Avenue at the Ramona Expressway during heavy rains.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

Will West, a volunteer from Long Beach, fills sandbags on Ocean View Boulevard in the La Canada Flintridge burn area.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

A TV crew reports under pouring rain on Ocean View Boulevard in the La Canada Flintridge burn area.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Shoppers shield themselves from the rain while making their way into the Hollywood & Highland Center on Hollywood Boulevard.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Workers from Vessel Assist/BoatU.S. attempt to raise a boat that sank from the rains in Long Beach.  (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times)

Max McCalla, 9, slips into a flooded Polliwog Park while playing in Manhattan Beach Monday.  (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles TImes)

Brett McCalla, 6, left, and his sister Josie, 4, join their friend Nicolas McAree, 8, as they play in a flooded Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach on Monday.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles TImes)

The driver of a mail truck navigates around a mudslide as a result of rain in Nichols Canyon in the Hollywood Hills on December 20, 2010.  (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

Fallen rocks along several miles of Pacific Coast Highway on Monday have prompted officials to close the road from 1.1 miles north of the Los Angeles- Ventura county line to 4.4 miles south of Oxnard.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

Malibu resident Pascal Stansfield surveys the waves at Point Dume State Park from under his umbrella Monday afternoon as a storms off the coast kick up surf.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

Steve Gurrola walks by a large fig tree that was uprooted Sunday down the street from his residence. It fell onto an apartment building on Centinela Avenue just north of Venice Boulevard.  (Katie Falkenberg / For The Times)

The fig tree was uprooted in Sunday’s rain storm in the Mar Vista neighborhood on Los Angeles’ Westside.  (Katie Falkenberg / For The Times)

Michele Evans and her dog Max walk past a festive K-rail in front of a home along Pine Glen Road in La Crescenta. The neighborhood lies just south of the area burned in 2009’s Station fire and has been on alert for mudslides in this week’s rains.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Genaro Cruz Hernandez uses cardboard as a shield against the driving rain as he walks to work down Washington Boulevard in Marina del Rey.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Vehicles dodge mud and flooded areas on Mulholland Highway near Skyline Drive as heavy rain continued to fall most of the day Sunday.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Georgene Stepanic, right, and friend Bob Reid are dressed to cope with the elements as they enjoy their Sunday morning coffee al fresco at the Cow’s End Cafe in Venice.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Shoppers try to stay out of the rain at Santa Monica Place and the Third Street Promenade.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

With only six days left before Christmas, shoppers brave driving rain to get to Santa Monica Place and the Third Street Promenade.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)