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Residents of Santa Fe, N.M., dig out from a winter storm that closed schools and blanketed nearby ski resorts with snow on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Authorities reported difficult driving conditions on on the state's two main interstate highways. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

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File - In this May 16, 2005, file photo, mountaineering shop worker Chris Stewart bicycles down a flooded Chapel Straight in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Al Golub, File)

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File - In this Jan. 5, 1997 file photo, Bill Stamps of Fresno, Calif., steps out of a washed-out section of roadway near Happy Isles Nature Center in Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park. (AP Photo/Scott Anger, File)

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In this Jan. 19, 1997 photo, a 150-foot section of Highway 140 at El Portal, west of Yosemite National Park, Calif., is washed out by the Merced River. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park.(John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP)

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File - In this Jan. 3, 1997, file photo, the Merced River appears to form a lake in Yosemite Valley from heavy rains which melted the snow pack in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park. (Mark Crosse/The Fresno Bee via AP, File)

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A shooting victim is unloaded from an emergency vehicle and taken into Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Authorities said multiple people have died after a lone suspect opened fire at the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, international airport. (Taimy Alvarez /South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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A pedestrian makes his way across an icy Willamette Street in Eugene, Oregon, Thursday Jan. 5, 2017, after a snow storm dumped several inches of snow on the area. Skiers throughout the West gleefully flocked to resorts Thursday to take advantage of deep, fresh snow dumped by a series of winter storms that were moving east and threatening turbulent weather across much of the Southeast. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)

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Actor Ed Begley Jr. arrives at a memorial service at the homes of Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Reynolds died Dec. 28 at the age of 84, a day after her daughter died at the age of 60. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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A pedestrian makes his way across an icy Willamette Street in Eugene, Oregon, Thursday Jan. 5, 2017, after a snow storm dumped several inches of snow on the area. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)

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Drivers stop to check out an abandoned car stuck in floodwaters on Green Valley Road Wednesday Jan. 4, 2017, in Graton, Calif. Wet winter weather slammed much of the West on Wednesday. (Beth Schlanker /The Press Democrat via AP)

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A part of northbound Interstate 5 is closed Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at Fawndale Road north of Redding, Calif. The closure caused traffic to be backed up for miles. (Andreas Fuhrmann/The Record Searchlight via AP)

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Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department Swiftwater rescue team rescues a stranded man, left, from the waters in the Los Angeles River Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. A California storm has moved on from the soggy north to the desperately dry south, which has seen hardly a drop in recent weeks. Flash flood watches and warnings were issued for areas up and down the state, especially those where brushfires had denuded hillsides and mountain slopes. (Matt Hartman via AP)

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Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department Swiftwater Rescue Team rescues a man, center, from flood waters in the Los Angeles River Thursday, Jan . 5, 2017. A California storm has moved on from the soggy north to the desperately dry south, which has seen hardly a drop in recent weeks. Flash flood watches and warnings were issued for areas up and down the state, especially those where brushfires had denuded hillsides and mountain slopes. (Matt Hartman via AP)

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Coast Guard and Los Angeles Fire Department rescue boats search the waters around the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area. A search-and-rescue operation at Los Angeles Harbor went through the night and continued Thursday despite rainy conditions, Petty Officer Sondra-Kay Kneen said. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)

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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)

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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)

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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)

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In this image taken from video and released by the U.S. Coast Guard, four offshore supply vessels extinguish a fire on an oil production platform fire 80 miles south off Grand Isle, La., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2016. The pre-dawn fire has been extinguished on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and there is no sign of pollution in the area, authorities said Thursday. There were no reports of injuries. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

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A private security guard talks to a driver arriving at the homes of Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher in Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Reynolds died Dec. 28 at the age of 84, a day after her daughter died at the age of 60. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)