protect the road, we re - going to lose more of the road here people can t get out. i you can see the impact of the heavy deluges here. this road has been completely cut off. people cannot access their homes. the rains have now started again after brief period of respite, and there is concern that more is going to come down. the threat of mudslides means they need to move quickly. the next stop is steve s house. that was a pretty hairy drive, by my standards. so this tree i planted 26 years ago. it was this tall, and it s the only tree to survive this. the whole thing just slid down. this is about 200 feet wide. you kind of get overwhelmed with a series of emotional things, which go from hope to pride to fear to, you know, despair to all that stuff. but at the end of the day, you know,
rain is the last thing people here need, and yet it keeps coming. widespread flooding is getting worse and roads are disintegrating. emergency services could only watch as this one collapses into the valley below. we joined the santa barbara bucket brigade, a local volunteer force formed after a mudslide killed 23 people here five years ago. what happened here? this is the road to my mom s house. she can t get home, so we ve got a big rock to clear out. all hands on what has become a treacherous, slippery deck. i m not worried about our house. it s not going to go - anywhere, and it s safe. and it sjust everybody else, and all the. - you know, i mean, if we don t protect the road, we re - going to lose more of the road here people can t get out. i you can see the impact of the heavy deluges here. this road has been completely cut off.
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what can you tell us about the situation in erie county? for the town of amherst, we are just a little north of buffalo. we received as much snow as anybody else, if not more. normally we can deal with 40 inches of snow. however, when there is a 70 mile an hour wind blowing it around for 36 hours and i can t put the plow trucks out, we fell behind the eight ball. so now we are trying to catch up to clear the roads from a good 2 to 3 feet of snow off these roads that again, normally we would have taken care of during the last three days. anita: when you have that much snow and you are doing your best to get out there and clear the snow so people can get out, are there people who are are you worried there are people who are trapped inside their homes, can t get out, the basics they need and what about power. are there still power outages in