The frozen spectacle came as an atmospheric river pounded California with thunderstorms and hail yesterday.
Packing gusty winds, the storms knocked out power for more than 11,000 customers, flooded roads, knocked down trees and shut down Santa Barbara airport for the day.
The National Weather Service in Sacramento issued a tornado warning for parts of Plumas County and Butte County in the state's north
More significant damage was still possible as heavy rains were expected to douse much of northern California into Tuesday and southern California into Wednesday.
Even so, the effects appeared to be far less significant than that from another atmospheric river two weeks ago that dumped up to a year's worth of precipitation in some area
After historic precipitation a year ago effectively ended the state's severe drought, California is again experiencing a wet year.
Those rains killed three people and damaged more than 800 homes, the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom said