A late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California was blamed for at least two deaths.

Caltrans said Friday emergency repairs are underway.

Hundreds upon hundreds of specimens known as "sea pickles" washed up on Monterey Bay beaches on Thursday. As explained by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, "Big waves and strong currents are pushing pyrosomes onto local beaches.

"In the midfield of my dive this school of blacksmith suddenly appeared. They were hiding from cormorants that dove into the water."

Major Mola Moment: First Confirmed Hoodwinker Sunfish Photographed in Monterey Bay!!

Conservationists are rejoicing this spring over Steelhead Trout numbers in the Carmel River. "The count is up," said Haley Ohms a project scientist with University of California Santa Cruz.

Wildlife officials say populations of the silvery Pacific sardine have plummeted over the past decade.