In the Los Angeles area, mud and debris covered several major roads including the Pacific Coast Highway near Pacific Palisades and Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills. High winds tore through a mobile home community in Oxnard,

The National Weather Service warned that rain and flooding would intensify throughout the evening until around 10 p.m., bringing the risk of major flooding, debris flows and damaging winds.

Storms dumped heavy snow and freezing rain on a swath of the eastern U.S. stretching from Kentucky to the nation's capital, causing hundreds of traffic accidents, knocking out power in places and threatening to flood waterways as temperatures