still under flood watches, and thousands have been forced to evacuate after atmospheric river events left whole neighborhoods looking like lake b, but some a choosing to ride out the storms. we just got our power back two days ago, and now it went out. we re firing back up the generators to keep our refrigerators and freezers cold. reporter: several rivers have overflowed including the salinas river. the large amounts of rain saturated the ground and caused roadways like this one to break away and slide down a cliff, and in los angeles, a downed tree crashed cars in a parking lot of a shopping mall. it came down, and then there were four cars over there and they got hit. four people were in one car. two of them were able to get out okay. the other two, we had to help them out, but no injuries. reporter: one community got inventive installing a zipline to cross the rushing waters