ANTELOPE–

“It’s a miracle,” says Danae Reynolds.

The mother and her family of seven were displaced six days ago in the wake of the rainstorm that swept through the Sacramento Valley.

“We woke up to a foot and a half of rain in our home, everything was ruined,” says Reynolds.

Now, thanks to more than two dozen of her co-workers at a company called Paramount Equity, she has furniture. Employees spent their Saturday unloading a trailer full of stuff for the family’s new home. Since their previous home had a history of flooding, the property manager gave them keys to a new rental on the same property.

“It’s amazing how God can answer your prayers in ways you’d never expect,” says Reynold’s son.

By the afternoon, the family had a fully furnished home.

CITRUS HEIGHTS-

Electronics, carpets and cars, all destroyed in a Citrus Heights mobile home park after the weekend storms.

Now, residents are trying to salvage what they can, before the next wave of rain.

“I tore all the floors out of my mobile home. I tried to sanitize and save some of it. This is my home. This is where I live,” said resident Paul Hodam.

Hodam saw a good two feet of water in his home and even lost his car, but residents’ biggest concern is what will to come of with the next rainfall.

“I have been out here all day helping neighbors clean up so it doesn’t happen again,” said resident Rick Escobedo.

To ensure things like that do not happen again experts say to move important belongings as high as possible.

You should also raise equipment like a water heater and furnace on concrete blocks. You can also save important documents by allowing them to air dry then take a picture of the document.

Make sure to discard the documents afterward because they are contaminated with outside water.

Also,  if your carpets or flooring get wet make sure you use a licensed contractor in the state of California.

A non-professional might not dry your flooring properly leaving the potential for more mold.

SACRAMENTO-

A white BMW with several inches of water inside, a car floating in a parking lot, another stranded on a flooded freeway – all casualties of Sunday’s final Pineapple Express that walloped northern California.

The day after the deluge, it was all about the two unfortunate “S’s” of auto repair – stalling and submersion.

If you tried to drive through what you thought was a puddle yesterday and your car stalled, you likely pulled water into your air intake.

“Water doesn’t compress like air and fuel does and when the engine tries it actually can’t do so and things get twisted and bent,” said John Hutchinson of Red Rocket Auto Tech.

The non-grease-monkey translation? Not good.

“Do not try to start it again or get yourself out of it, because all you are going to do is multiply your problems,” Hutchinson explained.

If your car took an unexpected swim, maybe even a float down flooded streets, the other “S” – submersion is your problem.

“You’ve got two primary problems, rust as well as mold,” according to Hutchinson.

In your car’s undercarriage are tons of electronic sensors which don’t like to get wet, but do like to glitch out when you least expect it.

“They don’t show problems right away. Some things they get damaged and you won’t see the ramifications of them for four months, six months or even a year,” Hutchinson told FOX40.

Your best bet? Get towed to a mechanic and brace yourself for bad news.

“I think the most likely scenario is that car is totaled. There’s so many things that are going to happen to that car in the future that it’s most likely going to be a totaled vehicle,” said Hutchinson.

SACRAMENTO-

For a few hours on Sunday, eastbound Business 80 between Fulton and Watt was Lake Capital City Freeway.

Cars and trucks were stuck fording a virtual river, causing some to stall and strand drivers, while other drivers simply turned around past the Fulton Avenue exit.

The first problem was obviously the rain. Secondly, a key piece of the drainage puzzle stopped working. There are two pumps on Business 80 at Marconi, one of them broke during the height of the storm.

The next problem? The combo of too much rain and loose soil.

“There was a small mudslide that came off an embankment – that brought some of the mud and wood chips that covered up the grates,” Dennis Keaton of CalTrans told FOX40.

The mud, wood chips and leaves covered four drainage grates, essentially choking them, even though they had been cleared three times last week.

There was also a broken water pipe at a storage facility adding to the water woes.

The final problem was the skeleton crew CalTrans had in place. Due to overtime budget limitations, they weren’t fully staffed for the storm. The crews CalTrans did have had been assigned to the Sierra, on snow patrol.

“When you’re dealing with splitting the crews and having to send them to other areas, they tend to thin out a little bit,” Keaton said.

Once crews did arrive, it took about two hours to clean the grates and get the water to drain.

SACRAMENTO COUNTY

FOX40 spotted dozens of trees down in the wake of Sunday’s storm that swept through the Sacramento Valley.

Many trees, were cleaned up right away, because they fell on public property. If a tree falls within in county lines, the county department of public health will clean it up.

If a tree falls within city lines, depending on the city,some public department will clean it up. But, if the tree falls on private property, it will be the responsibility of the homeowner,  landlord or building owner to clean it up.

Crews were busy Sunday cutting up fallen trees all over Sacramento County.

“If a tree falls on private property and we’re not doing anything, we will respond to a call to help people, but, we don’t always have time to do that” Michelle Eidam of Sacramento Metro Fire told FOX40.

If a tree does fall on private property, depending on the damages, homeowner’s insurance and or
car insurance will be of help to owners.