FROM THE AIR Acrobatic and racing pilots fly over Downtown Long Beach and the Queen Mary during a media preview day for the Huntington Beach Air Show. The pilots include; Michael Wiskus, flying the Lucas Oil plane, foreground, Mike Goulian, flying the Goodyear plane, Jeff Boerboon, flying the Jack Link’s bi-plane and Bill Stein, flying a purple Zivko Edge 540. Containers are stacked up in the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, CA. A pair of gray whales are stuck in shallow water at the mouth of the San Gabriel River between Long Beach and Seal Beach, CA. A man is drenched by a massive wave as he boards up windows at Capistrano Shores mobile home park during extremely high surf created by an approaching El Nino storm in San Clemente, Calif. Homes along Capistrano Beach get pelted with waves during high tide in Dana Point, CA. Aerial view of Long Beach, Calif. in the foreground and Los Angeles in the background. Mission San Juan Capistrano on a foggy morning. Booms float in the Talbert Marsh as workers try to limit the spread of oil from a spill from an offshore oil rig in Huntington Beach, CA. The U.S Coast Guard is leading the response to the spill, which comprised 126,000 gallons of oil and covered about 5.8 nautical miles between the Huntington Beach Pier and Newport Beach. The spill emanated from a facility operated by Beta Offshore about five miles off the coast, and was likely caused by a pipeline leak. More than 100 surfers took to the ocean north of the Huntington Beach Pier to honor Pierre Agnes, CEO of Quiksilver, in Huntington Beach, CA. Agnes, who also headed Quiksilver’s umbrella company, the Huntington Beach-based Boardriders Inc., went missing Jan. 30 after taking an early morning boat ride on his 36-foot boat Mascaret III. Firefighter investigate a home that caught fire in the 2100 block of E Sycamore St. in Anaheim, CA. The residents of the house were living in hoarding conditions. The lower half of a 25-foot tall donut is transported on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, CA. The donut, and its other half, were assembled on top of Randy’s Donuts’ new location in Costa Mesa. Homes along Capistrano Beach get pelted with waves during high tide in Dana Point, CA. The El Toro Y – the intersection of The 5 and 405 Freeways in Irvine, CA, are mostly empty during rush hour in the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Aerial view of the 3600 block of Petaluma Avenue in Long Beach. Jacaranda trees fill the street and create a purple canopy. Ruby’s Diner sits in a clearing in the clouds at the end of pier in Huntington Beach, CA The faux snow-covered Matterhorn Bobsleds pokes out of Disneyland as the real snow-covered San Gabriel Mountains stand over Orange County in Anaheim, CA.