to cut the demolition costs he figured why not just use those giant douglas firs?hrough and cut a house in half? >> we had six trees fall. there it goes. there it goes! hearing the windows break, the wood crack, seeing the branches fly, it was a ton of fun! >> reporter: back in the woods, it's time for my final exam, and i need a target. keeping with the real estate theme, we opt for this majestic mansion dollhouse. you're saying i can hit that dollhouse with this tree? >> you can. i'm not saying it's going to be easy. >> reporter: here we go. oh, no. i missed! i missed! no! no! >> take two. >> reporter: i'm giving it one more shot. >> same thing as before. good grip. let her rip. let's see what you got. >> reporter: whoo! >> you did it! >> reporter: bull's-eye! >> you couldn't do more damage than that. >> reporter: i had a lot of i am a lot of things. i am his guardian. i am his voice. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda xr® to his current treatment for moderate to severe alzheimer's. it works differently. when added to another alzheimer's treatment, like a

a douglas fir snapping and falling right down on to her san rafael home. >> sitting there with a cup of tea and looking out the window. there are some strong gusts of wind. >> the water came a few inches of water above. >> susan here is describing a december storm that nearly flooded her in her neighbor's homes along the creek. >> it did flood pretty well in the cul-de-sac here. >> tonight, the sandbags are back, not that susan is looking for a flood, but she is hoping for more rain. >> i'm particularly disappointed because we need a lot more rain. the floods have flooded here three times and they have never been devastated. >> busy day for chp as officers responded to plenty of spinouts. not the best day for a snapshot, they don't seem to care. it's all part of the story. >> it is a nice view, right? >> oh, it's beautiful. and you know, the weather is weather, you just endure it, wear a jacket and enjoy. >> and just like the east bay, pg&e quite busy right here in the north bay at one point. nearly 2,000 customers, julie, without power and of course, that can change either going up

. >> a douglas fir came downright on her roof, just above her daughter's room. >> once i saw this, and then dashed outside to the street and saw it was all just leaning. >> it looks like we have about 50, 60-mile an hour gusts out here. >> tree masters was given a task of getting that tree into the chipper and it's not the only one, this tree needs to be chopped up. this is just day one of what is expected to be a long, wet weekend. >> if the wind keeps up, we'll get more calls. >> and should mention that pg&e crews are over the north bay responding to more than a thousand outages and gasia, just like tree masters, they are all going to have a very long night. >> yeah, so mike, i'm thinking about all those trees down. is the homeowner responsible for picking up the cost? does home insurance help at all and how much does that clean up run, anyway? >> parted of it is what you mentioned. it depends on if you have insurance. we could use that in san rafael as an example. she was covered and the gentleman who works for tree masters, he says this tree, and again, it depends on the size of th

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. >> a did you go lar first -- douglas fir fell right on to her house. >> strong gusts of wind. i heard banging around here. maybe some of the birch branches coming down first. >> homes and businesses had to deal with power outages. cash registers ran on an emergency generator at this united market in san rafael. the store had to rely on dry ice to keep foods fresh. >> there were a couple of surges. it went off and then it came back on and then it went off. >> coming into a grocery store without power, it is a little weird right? >> i just read a survivalist book so it goes right along with it. >> everyone rolling with it. as you can see from these traffic lights, that outage actually ended up being traced to a runoff that had flooded an underground electrical vault no we just got off the phone with pg&e. many across the bay area don't have electricity across the area. power is out at 4500 homes and businesses in the north bay. san francisco and the peninsula combined 380 in the south bay and 170 in the east bay. at this point we don't know when the service is going to be back o