Heavy rains and strong winds from powerful winter storms this week brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California in years, triggering widespread mudslides and debris flows and leaving homes halfway filled with mud.
A portion of Highway 1 leading into Big Sur reopens to the public Friday. This comes more than six weeks after a portion of the road collapsed south of Rocky Creek Bridge.
On Wednesday, some parts of Madera County were still under an evacuation warning.
Less than 2% of the properties in California are covered by flood insurance.
At least three people are dead and three others are believed to be missing following a "large landslide" in Alaska, officials said.
A major landslide continues to threaten more homes in a Los Angeles County town after 12 were destroyed when the hillside gave way and began sliding into the canyon below on Saturday.