them out. reporter: one community got inventive and installing a zip line to cross the russian waters after a bridge washed out. we live in the woods, you have to be prepared. reporter: in belmont, part of a hillside came down into a neighborhood. and in fairfax, a mudslide displaced 19 people. i thought i heard thunder. it was not thunder. it was a hillside giving way behind the two flats behind us. trees went into their bathroom. it was coming down this broad and about this deep, all mud flow. reporter: the sierra mountain region saw up to three feet of snow in some places. the heavy snowfall left highways treacherous. i wish it would quit for a while. i m tired of it. reporter: and it was pouring this morning but as you could see, it is drying now. we re expecting the rain and the winds to let up by later today. still, there is that threat of roads giving way, trees coming
after a bridge rushed out. we live in the woods. you got to be prepared. reporter: in belmont, part of a hillside came down into a neighborhood, and in fairfax, a mudslide displaced people. i heard thunder. it was not thunder. it was the hillside giving away behind the two flats behind us. trees went into their bathroom. it was coming down this broad about this deep. all mud flow. reporter: the sierra mountain region in northern california saw up to 3 feet of snow in some places. the heavy snowfall left highways treacherous. kind of wishing it would quit for awhile. i m tired of it. reporter: and that feeling of being tired of it is certainly what we have been hearing from residents we ve talked to all weekend, including one woman who lives here in nevada when she said she wakes up every morning, just crossing her fingers that a tree didn t just come down in her neighborhood, and that her house hasn t flooded, and so
and there were floods. this is nothing. it was coming down this broad, about this deep, all mud flow. reporter: fleischer told me he s lived here since the 1980s and has never seen anything like that. thankfully everyone was okay and got out of the building. another dangerous situation, on saturday cal fire shared pictures of a situation in pes ka der row where part of the road there fell off of a cliff. so again, a lot of warnings to residents and drivers, just that even though the rain is less than they may have seen over the last couple of weeks, the ground is extremely saturated. at one point on saturday, more than 30,000 customers were out of power and more than 25 million people under a flood watch. natasha chen, cnn, fairfax, california. the death toll keeps growing
clara, areas prone to flooding here is a building have to be evacuate from fairfax describing the moment the mud slide happened. i thought i heard thunder, it was not thunder. it was a hill side giving way behind the two flats behind us. trees went into their bathrooms. there were little kids there. there is fortunately a lady across the street is an emt fire person in san francisco. we had no idea what was happening till i came outside. and there were floods this is nothing. it was coming down this broad about this deep. all mud flow. fleisher told me he lived here since the 1980s and never seen anything like that and thankfully everyone was ok and got out of the building.
all mud flow. reporter: he s lived here since the 1980s, and he s never seen anything like that. thankfully everyone there was okay. but there are a lot of warnings city officials are giving because of dangers like that and like this road in pescadero, cal fire shared pictures of this when part of the road collapsed and fell off of a cliff. there is a lot of saturation in the ground and in rivers because of the storm after storm that we ve seen over the last couple of weeks, so even if there isn t as much rain this weekend as californians have been seeing, it s not going to take much for that flooding and those mud slide risks to happen, and so at one point on saturday, there were more than 30,000 customers out of power. more than 25 million people under a flood watch. amara and boris, back to you? natasha chen there just north of san francisco.