Photos: High surf and tides hit Southern California

Leandra Timmering of Huntington Beach paddles with her dog, Scooter, as Huntington Beach utilities dept. workers sandbag a retaining wall as water flowed onto Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach, Calif., on Tuesday.

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Oct. 27, 2015 8:25 PM PT

A kayaker doesn’t have to drag the kayak to the sand during high tide that flooded a small portion along Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach, Calif. on Tuesday.

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High surf crashes into the sea wall near Big rock on Will Rogers State Beach along Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. Unusually high tides began hitting Southern California on Tuesday.

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High surf crashed into the sea wall near Big rock on Will Rogers State Beach along Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday morning.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A surfer navigates amid a building swell at the Huntington Beach pier on Tuesday.

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A surfer goes airborne amid a building swell at the Huntington Beach pier on Tuesday.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)