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Many Studio City residents returned home after evacuation to find their homes severely damaged from flooding and mudslides due to the storm.

A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours that caused hundreds of landslides, is moving out of the region after a final drenching.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jesus Barron answered his wifes panicked phone call warning him that a mudslide was smashing into their bedroom in the hills of eastern Los Angeles County.

A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours that caused hundreds of landslides, was moving out of the region after one final drenching Wednesday, but authorities warned of the continued threat of collapsing hillsides.

Nine storm-related deaths have been reported, many from falling trees, since the storm first struck Northern California last weekend and then plowed south.

A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours, is moving out of the region.

A powerful storm system has drenched parts of California, leaving at least three people dead, knocking out power and prompting dangerous mudslides and rivers of debris stretching across neighborhoods. The rain – and in some areas, the heavy snow – is slowly wrapping up, but some threats remain. Here’s what’s happening:

Jesus Barron answered his wife's panicked phone call warning him that a mudslide was smashing into their bedroom in the hills of eastern Los Angeles County. Then, the line went dead.

Residents of one street were forced to evacuate as mud and rocks thundered down the hillside.

The atmospheric river parked over Southern California has caused devastating debris flows in posh neighborhoods in the region's canyons and hillsides.