Retrieving cars after UCLA water-main break

UCLA student Soyon Kim, 27, checks on her totaled 2014 Volkswagon Jetta as she joined many of her UCLA colleagues in retrieving their flood-damaged cars from a parking lot behind Jackie Robinson Stadium. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Aug. 1, 2014 1:42 PM PT

After the waters recede, students and workers assess the damage.

UCLA student Zahra Aghajan, 28, checks on her totaled Mitsubishi Lancer in a parking lot behind Jackie Robinson Stadium. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

UCLA teacher Bobak Mortazavi, who recently finished his doctorate in computer science at the university, salvages his parking pass from his flood-ravaged car in a parking lot behind Jackie Robinson Stadium. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Student Takeshi Shoji, 26, right, takes a picture of his flood-ravaged car as friend, student Phuochai Ran, 23, looks on in a parking lot behind Jackie Robinson Stadium. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Some of the electrical devices that were found ruined in the flood-ravaged car of Eugene Acosta, an IT manager at UCLA and an alum of the university. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Azin Faghihi, 29, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering, salvages items from her flood-ravaged car in a parking lot behind Jackie Robinson Stadium. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Anh Nguyen, a recent UCLA graduate who now works on campus, is relieved to get her car after it was stranded in one of the two UCLA parking structures that was flooded after a water main break. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Cars are removed from UCLA’s parking garage four Friday morning. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Barry Kendrick is ecstatic to retrieve his Camaro RS after it was stuck in one of the UCLA parking structures that was flooded after a 90-year-old water main burst earlier in the week. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

UCLA students and faculty wait in line to retrieve their cars after the vehicles were marooned in one of the two UCLA parking structures that was flooded. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

UCLA grad student Rob Richmond, right, looks for his car after it was removed from one of two flooded UCLA parking structures. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)