article_snippet.sent: Escape: Water pours down a grassy California hillside in this image .
article_snippet.sent: Dried up: Desert shrubbery is seen as sun touches down on mountains in Mojave, California .
article_snippet.sent: Light peers through trees in an Oregon forest .
article_snippet.sent: Make a break for it: The Cook Islands' Rarotonga is seen covered in trees .
article_snippet.sent: No stranger to inclement weather, Seattle's skyscrapers are seen underneath dark skies .
article_snippet.sent: ' Fun in the sun: Houses line Venice Beach, California .