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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, sandbags are stacked and ready at this Paradise Park home in Santa Cruz, Calif. On the California coast this weekend, forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific, called an atmospheric river, to dump up to eight inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. Forecasters warn of mudslides on the Central Coast hard hit this summer by scarring wildfires. (Dan Coyro/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
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People load sand bags in preparation for a large storm on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in San Anselmo, Calif. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump up to eight inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. Forecasters warn of mudslides on the Central Coast hard hit this summer by scarring wildfires. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Ian Sobral ties sandbags in preparation for a large storm on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in San Anselmo, Calif. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river, to dump up to eight inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. Forecasters warn of mudslides on the Central Coast hard hit this summer by scarring wildfires. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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A business sits above the San Anselmo Creek, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in San Anselmo, Calif. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump up to eight inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. Forecasters warn of mudslides on the Central Coast hard hit this summer by scarring wildfires. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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A Ross Valley Sanitary District employee checks the sewer level near the San Anselmo Creek in preparation for a large storm on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in San Anselmo, Calif. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump up to eight inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. Forecasters warn of mudslides on the Central Coast hard hit this summer by scarring wildfires. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Ross Valley Sanitary District workers install a smart cover early warning alarm into a sewer near the San Anselmo Creek in preparation for a large storm on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in San Anselmo, Calif. The device will monitor and alert digitally of impending rise in sewer water levels during a flood. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump up to eight inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. Forecasters warn of mudslides on the Central Coast hard hit this summer by scarring wildfires. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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In this photo provided by Josh Helling, the Merced River flows Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in El Portal, Calif., near Yosemite National Park. Residents of California from the coastline to the Sierra Nevada are bracing for heavy rain and snow that's already shut down Yosemite National Park and is expected to swell rivers and topple trees. Rangers at Yosemite on Friday closed access to the valley floor, raising memories of flooding in 1997 that forced the park to shut down for two months. (Josh Helling via AP)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, provided by the National Park Service, the Merced River flows through Yosemite National Park, Calif. Residents of California from the coastline to the Sierra Nevada are bracing for heavy rain and snow that's already shut down Yosemite National Park and is expected to swell rivers and topple trees. Rangers at Yosemite on Friday closed access to the valley floor, raising memories of flooding in 1997 that forced the park to shut down for two months. (Jamie Richards/National Park Service via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2015, file photo, deer forage after a night of fresh snowfall, in Boulder, Colo. Deer have it rough during the winter, when much of their food is covered by snow and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says people can make it worse by disturbing the animals, forcing them to use energy they must conserve until spring. Feeding deer is also a bad idea, since the animal's digestion adapts to the winter season and they can suffer from the wrong type of food. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2015 file photo, water flows through a series of retention ponds built to contain and filter out heavy metals and chemicals from the Gold King mine chemical accident, in the spillway about 1/4 mile downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. The massive mine waste spill in southwestern Colorado contributed to water quality problems for up to nine months, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Contamination from the August 2015 spill at the Gold King Mine may also have caused pollution problems last year when annual spring snowmelt swelled rivers. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident, in the spillway downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. The massive mine waste spill in southwestern Colorado contributed to water quality problems for up to nine months, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Contamination from the August 2015 spill at the Gold King Mine may also have caused pollution problems last year when annual spring snowmelt swelled rivers. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
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Crews pile sandbags in front of a warehouse in the Sparks Industrial Park, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 in Sparks, Nev., a half-mile away from the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. According to NASA, IceBridge scientists measured the Larsen C fracture to be about 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and about a third of a mile deep. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)
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This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. According to NASA, IceBridge scientists measured the Larsen C fracture to be about 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and about a third of a mile deep. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 photo, reactor containment domes of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. rise above homes just north of the town of Verplanck, N.Y. as seen from the Stony Point Historic Site. The aging facility just north of New York City will close by April 2021 under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has long argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Traffic creeps along on an ice coated Lomas Blvd. as a winter storm brought more ice than snow to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. (Marla Brose/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
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Traffic backs up on a hill on Irving Blvd. in Albuquerque as cars slide on the ice, after a winter storm brought more ice than snow to New Mexico, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. (Jim Thompson/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
