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In Malibu, homeowners prepare for downpours that could bring more than a foot of rain to some mudslide-prone mountain canyons. ASSOCIATED PRESS  
L.A. Times  

Winter's punch

Weather warnings as fierce storms pummel state

The first of three major storms bearing down on California swept into the state Thursday, bringing drenching rain to the Bay Area and life-threatening dangers from the Sierra to Southern California. (San Francisco Chronicle)
ALSO:
• Midnight is the drenching hour as storms head to L.A.
• Oceanside businesses bracing for more flooding
• Santa Cruz reservoirs get much needed water
Thursday's reading: 28 inches of snow. KGO San Francisco  
KGO  

Tale of the tape

California snowpack low, showing less water supply

The snowpack in the Sierra Mountains of California is 60 percent of normal, but rain and snow expected in the next few days will raise that figure, the California Department of Water Resources said in its first snow survey of the season issued late Thursday. (Reuters)

David Nahai is the first ever to helm the DWP without decades of experience in either the utility business or city government. KEVIN SCANLON/Jewish Journal  
Journal  

Power play

New DWP chief David Nahai takes on major challenges

David Nahai is an environmentalist and an attorney, not an engineer, and his major previous management challenge was running a 15-employee law firm. But he is the man Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tapped take on the $304,000-a-year job as general manager of the Department of Water and Power, the nation's largest — and frequently troubled — public municipal utility. (Jewish Journal)

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Quote of the Day
“Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.”
— Mark Twain

Photo of the Week
DRISHA LEGGITT
Fair Oaks Water District

Digging her work
Shortly after dawn on the morning of Dec. 12, CBS13 and CW31 reporter Taryn Winter-Brill stood inside a 5-foot-deep hole beside Fair Oaks Water District Operations Field Supervisor John Spinella, receiving a quick lesson on how to install a water meter off a main water line, before demonstrating the process on live television. Brill did more than simply report the news that morning: donning a FOWD hard-hat, work jacket and rubber boots, the “Good Day, Sacramento” reporter also helped to pull copper wire, move the back-hoe, and even use the jack-hammer with the FOWD crew.
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