As the Haim sisters hit the road, California sounds will follow

Alana Haim couldn't believe what she was hearing.

In need of a new cellphone number, the youngest member of Haim _ the Los Angeles-based trio she shares with her older sisters, Este and Danielle _ recently took herself to T-Mobile, where a worker informed her that her replacement digits would start with the area code 747.

"I was literally speechless," Alana recalled the other day. "At first I couldn't even talk." Eventually she told the rep, "'I need an 818 number.' And they were like, 'There's none left.' I said, 'You're gonna need to check again.'"

So the worker did _ and returned with what he said was the last available phone number with the San Fernando Valley's iconic area code.

"It's the ugliest number _ none of the digits repeat,