road, brian ward is helping to clear a mudslide so he can get help in. >> we're used to mountain life. but, um, i don't think you get used to something like this. >> reporter: this is what's left of his house. his pregnant wife and 9 month old daughter barely escaped yesterday morning when the mountain crashed above. trees, boulder, mud and water came down knocking the house off its foundation. >> thankfully she just jumped out of bed, grabbed our daughter and ran outside barefoot and everything. >> reporter: no one was hurt, the house is ruined, the property scattered for yards, the vintage vw bug crashed into a neighbor's trailer in the floe. >> the slide came down and the tree came down and hit here and he was just fixing that motorcycle and there it is. that giant redwood. >> reporter: the soil that's all around here right now is everything that came down in the slide but it is so saturated with water it's liquified like quicksand. and even heavy equipment that's coming in four-wheel drive vehicles can't get through.