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In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo released by Santa Barbara County Fire, a Caltrans worker stands in the northbound U.S 101, where the nearby Romero Creek has overflowed and flooded in the Montecito area of Santa Barbara County, Calif. Several miles of U.S. 101, a vital route between Los Angeles and points north and west, were closed because of flooding. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via AP)

In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo released by Santa Barbara County Fire, a California Highway Patrol Officer walks in the northbound U.S. 101 in Montecito, Calif., where the nearby San Ysidro Creek has overflowed and flooded the highway. In the Montecito area of Santa Barbara County, several miles of U.S 101, a vital route between Los Angeles and points north and west, were closed because of flooding. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via AP)

The body of a volunteer member of the Ventura County search and rescue team is carried past an overturned vehicle after an accident along Interstate Highway 5 south of Pyramid Lake, Calif. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The second in a string of powerful storms is battering California, bringing down trees, flooding roadways and prompting evacuations in wildfire burn areas where intense downpours could loosen bare hillsides and cause mudslides. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo released by Santa Barbara County Fire, a large stone pine tree believed to be 100-years-old came down into this Santa Barbara, Calif., home during Saturday's powerful winter storm. A wind gust in Santa Barbara County topped 80 mph (128 kph) as the storm moved south and later dropped more than a half-inch (1.27 centimeters) of rain in five minutes. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via AP)

In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo released by Santa Barbara County Fire, Santa Barbara County firefighters survey the scene of a large eucalyptus tree that fell into a two-story apartment complex on Bolton Walk in Goleta, Calif. Multiple trees have toppled and wires have come down throughout the county as a result of this latest storm. A wind gust in Santa Barbara County topped 80 mph (128 kph) as the storm moved south and later dropped more than a half-inch (1.27 centimeters) of rain in five minutes. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via AP)

In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo released by Santa Barbara County Fire, the San Pedro Creek flows under Hollister Ave. near Fairview Ave. in Goleta, Calif. The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting a key highway after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas that are under mandatory evacuation orders. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via AP)

A pick up truck makes it way through flooded streets of Panorama City section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Flash flood warnings were issued for vast swaths of Southern California and forecasters said the system will bring several inches of rain at lower elevations and heavy snow in the mountains. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Vehicles make their way through flooded streets of Panorama City section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Flash flood warnings were issued for vast swaths of Southern California and forecasters said the system will bring several inches of rain at lower elevations and heavy snow in the mountains. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

An overturned vehicle is seen at a scene of a fatal accident, where a volunteer member of the Ventura County search and rescue team was killed, along Interstate Highway 5 south of Pyramid Lake, Calif. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The second in a string of powerful storms is battering California, bringing down trees, flooding roadways and prompting evacuations in wildfire burn areas where intense downpours could loosen bare hillsides and cause mudslides. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The flag-draped body of a volunteer member with the Ventura County search and rescue team, killed in a traffic accident, is loaded onto a coroner van as law enforcement personnel salute along Interstate Highway 5 south of Pyramid Lake, Calif. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The second in a string of powerful storms is battering California, bringing down trees, flooding roadways and prompting evacuations in wildfire burn areas where intense downpours could loosen bare hillsides and cause mudslides. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Emergency personnel huddle around the body of volunteer member of the Ventura County search and rescue team, killed in a traffic accident, along interstate highway 5 south of Pyramid Lake, Calif. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The second in a string of powerful storms is battering California, bringing down trees, flooding roadways and prompting evacuations in wildfire burn areas where intense downpours could loosen bare hillsides and cause mudslides. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Emergency personnel huddle around the body of a volunteer member of the Ventura County search and rescue team, killed in a traffic accident along Interstate Highway 5 south of Pyramid Lake, Calif. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The second in a string of powerful storms is battering California, bringing down trees, flooding roadways and prompting evacuations in wildfire burn areas where intense downpours could loosen bare hillsides and cause mudslides. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Law enforcement and other emergency personnel salute at the scene of a fatal accident where a volunteer member of the Ventura County search and rescue team was killed along Interstate Highway 5 south of Pyramid Lake, Calif. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The second in a string of powerful storms is battering California, bringing down trees, flooding roadways and prompting evacuations in wildfire burn areas where intense downpours could loosen bare hillsides and cause mudslides. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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