AP/Nevada Appeal, Brad Horn Reno rescue team members search a neighborhood in Fernley, Nev., on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, after a canal levee ruptured from heavy rainfall, pouring more than 3 feet of near-freezing water into hundreds of homes and stranding some 3,500 people across a square mile in their desert agricultural town about 33 miles east of Reno. Kelli Robbins via KTVN-TV A port-o-potty at a construction site in Fernley, Nev., floats in floodwaters Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, which resulted after a canal levee ruptured from heavy rainfall. AP Photo/Brad Horn The levee that broke, flooding homes in Fernley, Nev., and forcing evacuations Saturday, is repaired on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008. As many as 400 homes were damaged when the canal's bank gave way following heavy rainfall, produced by the West Coast storm system that had piled snow as much as 11 feet deep in the Sierra Nevada. AP Photo/Brad Horn A neighborhood near Farm District Road in Fernley, Nev., sits under flood waters as some residents collect valuables on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, after heavy flooding damaged homes and forced evacuations. AP Photo/Brad Horn Cassie and David Russell take some possessions from their Jenny's Lane home in Fernley, Nev., on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, after flooding forced their family to evacuate Saturday. The Russell's home was damaged with about 2 feet of floodwater. Hundreds of homes sat in as much as 8 feet of water Sunday following a canal rupture as freezing temperatures hindered efforts to get the water to drain away. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Matthew Harrell digs out his car, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, as tow trucks prepare to pull the car back onto the road near Gold Run, Calif., Harrell lost control of the car and went over the embankment while driving through a snow storm Saturday and had to leave it overnight before getting tow trucks to pull it out. Storms are expected to continue to sweeping through California, bringing rain and snow to the mountains. AP/The Press Democrat, Kent Porter Arborist Lucas Graves takes a breather after cutting up a fir tree that landed in a home on Ridgecrest Drive in Guerneville, Calif., Saturday Jan. 5, 2008. AP Photo/Ben Margot High winds whip an American flag flying near the Golden Gate Bridge during a rain storm Monday, Jan. 4, 2007, in San Francisco. A fierce arctic storm pounded California on Friday, threatening to soak mudslide-prone canyons already charred by wildfires and to paralyze the mountains with deep snow. AP Photo/Ben Margot Motorists are consumed by a wave as they watch high surf near the Golden Gate Bridge during a rain storm Friday, Jan. 4, 2007, at Fort Point in San Francisco. AP Photo/Ben Margot Motorists sit in gridlocked traffic during a rain storm which flooded Northbound U.S. Highway 101 Friday, Jan. 4, 2007, in San Anselmo, Calif. AP Photo/Ben Margot A woman stranded in traffic walks her dog during a rain storm Friday, Jan. 4, 2007, on the San Anselmo exit from U.S. Highway 101 in San Anselmo, Calif. Power already was knocked out to hundreds of thousands of residents, and the California Highway Patrol encouraged drivers to stay off the roads. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez A woman walks in the rain in downtown San Jose, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Northern California is bracing for three storms expected to pack high winds, pelting rain and several feet of snow, leading to a rare blizzard warning for the Sierra Nevada. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez A man walks in the rain in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Northern California is bracing for three storms expected to pack high winds, heavy rain, and snow, leading to a rare blizzard warning for the Sierra Nevada. AP Photo/Nick Ut Francisco Alvarado fills sand bags Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Malibu, Calif., as residents prepare for potential mudslides in previously burned areas. Homeowners still struggling to rebuild their lives after last fall's wildfires are preparing for downpours that could bring more than a foot of rain to some mudslide-prone mountain canyons. AP Photo/Ric Francis Regine Lahde, left, gets assistance from Pedro Ramirez, a friend, using sandbags to create a barrier in front of her home Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Silverado, Calif. AP Photo/Ric Francis A forest service official looks down from the Cleveland National Forest, Thursday, Jan. 3, near Orange County, Calif., on the community of Modjeska, where homeowners, still struggling to rebuild their lives after last fall's wildfires, are preparing for downpours that could bring more than a foot of rain to some mudslide-prone mountain canyons. A trio of rainstorms is expected to hit Southern California this weekend. AP Photo/Nick Ut Sand bags and plastic sheeting cover the back of a home at the edge of a hillside Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Malibu, Calif. CBS Jai Pal Khalsa gathers sand bags at the Malibu fire station Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Malibu, Calif., as residents prepare for potential mudslides in previously burned areas. AP/Santa Rosa Press Dem., K. Porter Ashish Patel, right, and his father-in-law Jack Patel, left, unload sandbags in front of their business in Petaluma, Calif., on Thursday Jan. 3, 2008. The strongest in a series of potent storms was expected to lash California with fierce winds, heavy rain and paralyzing snowfall Friday, with forecasters warning the extreme weather would last through the weekend.
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